They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
They flee from me that Sometime did me Seek 1They flee from me that sometime did me seek 2With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. 3I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, 4That now are wild and do not remember 5That sometime they put themself in danger 6To take bread at my hand; and now they range, 7Busily seeking with a continual change. 8Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise 9Twenty times better; but once in special, 10In thin array after a pleasant guise, 11When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall, 12And she me caught in her arms long and small; 13Therewithall sweetly did me kiss 14And softly said, "dear heart, how like you this?" 15It was no dream: I lay broad waking. 16But all is turned thorough my gentleness 17Into a strange fashion of forsaking; 18And I have leave to go of her goodness, 19And she also, to use newfangleness. 20But since that I so kindly am served 21I would fain know what she hath deserved.

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