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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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232 XX. SIR THOMAS WIAT.And <strong>the</strong>rwithall this thing I shall <strong>the</strong>e giue,In this world now litle prosperitie, goAnd coyne <strong>to</strong> kepe, as water in a siue.(D)A 7'enoimci7ig <strong>of</strong> lotie.T7Arewell, Loue, and all thy lawes for euer ! 0/Thy bayted hokes shall tangle me no more. ^Senec and Pla<strong>to</strong> call me <strong>from</strong> thy loreTo parfit wealth my wit for <strong>to</strong> endeuer.In [my] blinde errour when I dyd perseuer.Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,Taught me, in triflesthat I set no s<strong>to</strong>re,But scape forth <strong>the</strong>nce, since libertie is leuerTherfore, farewell ;go trouble yonger hartes, ^And in me claime no more auc<strong>to</strong>ritie.With ydle youth go vse thy propartie,And <strong>the</strong>ron spend thy many britde dartes.For^Jry<strong>the</strong>r<strong>to</strong> though^haue lostjny tyme,Me lyst no longer ^ rotten bowes <strong>to</strong> clime. P^Ou(E)The louerforsaketh his vnhinde loue.JYJ Y hart I gaue <strong>the</strong>e ; not <strong>to</strong> do it pain,^But <strong>to</strong> preserue, lo, it <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>e was taken^I serued <strong>the</strong>e not that I should be forsaken. \yBut, that I should receiue reward again, ^^I was content thy seruant <strong>to</strong> remain,And not <strong>to</strong> be repayd after this fashion.Now, since in <strong>the</strong>e is <strong>the</strong>re none o<strong>the</strong>r - reason,Jb**' Printed 'lenger'; but a copy, printed by Tottell in 1574, has ' longer.'2 X>r\r\\t^A « rt/-.4V>x^r^ Printed ' no<strong>the</strong>r.'

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