on Tom Clark's blog today:

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It may be good like it who list
but I do dowbt who can me blame 
for oft assured yet have I myst 
and now again I fere the same 
The wyndy worde[s] the Ies quaynt game
of soden change maketh me agast
for dred to fall I stond not fast
Alas I tred an endles maze
that seketh to accorde two contraries
and hope still & nothing hase
imprisoned in liberte[s]
as one unhard & and still that cries
alwaies thursty & yet and nothing I tast
for dred to fall I stond not fast
Assured I dowbt I be not sure
and should I trust to suche suretie
that oft hath put the prouff in ure
and never hath founde it trusty
nay sir In faith it were great foly
and yet my liff thus I do wast
for dred to fall I stond not fast


Hase: hazard, attempt
ure: use

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): It may be good like it who list: transcription from original text (British Library Egerton MS 2711, fol. 22) by Richard Harrier in The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry, 1975

 

 

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