Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    Forget not yet the tried intent
    Of such a truth as I have meant;
    My great travail so gladly spent
    Forget not yet!
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
    Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

    Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
    Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;
    Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
    To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Nor I ame not where Christe is geven in pray
    For mony, poison and traison at Rome,
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)