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Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557, by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557

Yet was I neuer

Was neuer file yet half

The liuely sparkes

Svch vain thought

Vnstable dreame

Ye that in loue finde luck

Cesar, when that the

Eche man me telth

Some fowles there be

Because I still kept thee

I find no peace

My galley charged

Avisyng the bright beames

They flee from me

Madame, withouten many wordes

The wandring gadling

What nedes these threatnyng woordes

Right true it is

Resownde my voyce ye woodes

In fayth I wot not what to say

Farewell the hart of crueltie

The restfull place

From these hie hilles

Myne olde dere enmy

Maruell no more altho

Where shall I haue

She sat, and sowed

What man hath hard such cruelty

Behold, Loue, thy power

What vaileth troth?

Somtime I fled the fire

The furious goonne

Accused though I be

My loue to skorne

Within my brest

Passe forth my wonted cryes

Your lokes so often cast

Disdaine me not without desert

For want of will

If euer man might him auaunt

Some men would thinke of right

The answere that ye made

Svch is the course

The enmy of life

Once as me thought

Nature that gaue the Bee

Vnwarely so was neuer

Al in thy loke my life

Perdy I sayd it not

Lvx, my faire fawlcon

A face that should content

Ever my hap is slack

Loue, Fortune, and my minde

Lyke vnto these

If amourous fayth

My hart I gaue thee

The flaming sighes

The piller perisht

Go burning sighes

So feble is the threde

Svffised not (madame)

When first mine eyes

Synce loue wyll nedes

Mystrustfull mindes be moued

Of purpose, loue chose first

What rage is this?

Desire (alas) my master

I see, that chance

For shamefast harm of great

Vvlcane begat me

Syghes are my foode

Through out the world

Stond who so list

In court to serue

Driuen by desire

In doubtfull breast

My mothers maides

Myne owne Iohn Poyns

A spendyng hand

When Dido feasted first

Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557. Songes written by Nicolas Grimald. by Nicolas Grimald

Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557 Vncertain auctors. by uncertain authors

Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557 Other Songs and Sonettes written by the earle of Surrey. by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Other Songes and sonettes written by sir Thomas wiat the elder

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Loue, Fortune, and my minde

Of Loue, Fortune, and the louers minde.

Loue, Fortune, and my minde which do remember
Eke that is now, and that that once hath bene:
Torment my hart so sore that very often
I hate and enuy them beyonde all measure.
Loue sleeth my hart while Fortune is depriuer
Of all my comfort: the folishe minde than:
Burneth and playneth: as one that sildam
Liueth in rest. Still in dispeasure

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displeasure

My pleasant daies they flete away and passe.
And dayly doth myne yll change to the worse.
While more then halfe is runne now of my course.
Alas not of stele, but of brittle glasse,
I se that from my hand falleth my trust:
And all my thoughtes are dasshed into dust.