Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    “Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
    And well deserved to have blame;
    Change thou thy way so evil begun,
    And then my lute shall sound that same:
    But if till then my fingers play
    By thy desert their wonted way,
    Blame not my lute.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “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)

    “The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.”
    —Richard, Sir Storey (b. 1937)

    “Burning in the bride bed of love, in the whirl-
    Pool at the wanting centre, in the folds
    Of paradise, in the spun bud of the world.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “With serving still
    This have I won,
    For my goodwill
    To be undone;”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)