Sir Thomas Wyatt

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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)

    “What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “here I ame in Kent and Christendome
    Emong the muses where I rede and ryme;”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “My most desire my hand may reach,
    My will is alway at my hand;
    Me need not long for to beseech
    Her that hath power me to command.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)