Sir Thomas Pakenham

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    “Madame, withouten many wordes,
    Ons I ame sure ye will or no;
    And if ye will, then leve your bordes,
    And use your wit and shew it so.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)

    “Listen. The minstrels sing
    In the departed villages. The nightingale,
    Dust in the buried wood, flies on the grains of her wings
    And spells on the winds of the dead his winter’s tale.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)