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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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LXXIX

[Vnstable dreme according to the place]

Vnstable dreme according to the place
Be stedfast ons: or els at leist be true:
By tasted swetenes make me not to rew
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The sudden losse of thy fals fayned grace.
By goode respect in such a daungerous case
Thou broughtes not her into this tossing mew
But madest my sprite lyve my care to renew,
My body in tempest her succour to embrace.
The body dede, the spryt had his desire;
Paynles was th'one: th'othre in delight.
Why then, Alas, did it not kepe it right,
Retorning to lepe into the fire,
And where it was at wysshe it could not remain?
Such mockes of dremes they torne to dedly pain.
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