Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    And graven with diamonds in letters plain
    There is written her fair neck round about:
    “Noli me tangere for Caesar’s I am,
    And wild for to hold though I seem tame.”
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    There was a young lady called Gloria
    Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
    And then by six men
    And Sir Gerald again
    And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.
    Anonymous.

    Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
    The darkest way, and did not turn away,
    A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride
    On that darkest day.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

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