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Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson
Wyatt, Thomas (1503?-1542)
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I Poems from the Egerton Manuscript
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II Satires
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III Penitential Psalms
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IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript
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V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript
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VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript
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VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts
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VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes
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IX Poems from The Court of Venus and A Boke of Balettes

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[Patiens for my devise]

Patiens for my devise,
Impaciens for your part;
Of contraries the gyse
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Is ever the overthwart:
Paciens, for I ame true,
The contrary for yew.
Paciens, a good cause why
You have no cause at all;
Therefore yours standeth awry,
Perchaunce sometyme to fall:
Paciens, then take him vp
And drynck of paciens cupp.
Pacience, no force for that,
But brusshe your gowne again;
Pacience, spurne not therat;
Let no man knowe your payne:
Pacience, evyn at my pleasure,
When youres is owte of mesure.
Th'othre was for me,
This pacience is for you;
Chaunge when ye list, let se,
For I have taken a new;
Pacience, with a good will
Is easy to fulfill.
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