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

The sonne hath twise brought furth

The soote season

When youth had led me

Svche waiward waies hath loue

When somer toke in hand

Loue, that liueth, and reigneth

In Ciprus, springes

Brittle beautie

Alas so all thinges nowe

When Windsor walles susteyned

Set me wheras the sunne

I neuer sawe my Ladye

The golden gift

So cruell prison

When ragyng loue

In winters iust returne

Geue place ye louers

Although I had a check

To dearely had I bought

O lothsome place where I

As oft as I behold and se

Though I regarded not

Wrapt in my carelesse cloke

Martiall, the thinges

Of thy lyfe, Thomas

The great Macedon

Dyuers thy death

W. resteth here

Thassirian king in peace

Layd in my quiet bed

The stormes are past

My Ratclif

The fansy, which that I

Tottel — Songes and Sonettes — 1557

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

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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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My Ratclif

Exhortacion to learne by others trouble.

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My Ratclif, when thy rechlesse youth offendes:
Receue thy scourge by others chastisement.
For such callyng, when it workes none amendes:
Then plages are sent without aduertisement.
Yet Salomon sayd, the wronged shall recure:
But Wiat said true, the skarre doth aye endure.