Sir Thomas Gascoigne

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    “My lute awake! perform the last
    Labour that thou and I shall waste,
    And end that I have now begun;
    For when this song is sung and past,
    My lute be still, for I have done.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “And these poor nerves so wired to the skull
    Ache on the lovelorn paper....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Full many wanton babes have I,
    Which must be stilled with lullaby.”
    —George Gascoigne (1539–1577)