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SIR THOMAS WYATT I promised you.

And you promised me,

To be as true

As I would be.

But since I see

Your double heart,

Farewell my part!

Thought for to take

'Tis not my mind;

But to forsake

One so unkind;

And as I find

So will I trust.

Farewell, unjust!

Can ye say nay

But that you said

That I alway

Should be obeyed?

And-thus betrayed

Or that I wist!

Farewell, unkist!

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HEY flee from me that sometime did me seek,

With naked foot stalking in my chamber:

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,

That now are wild, and do not once remember

That sometime they have put themselves in danger

To take bread at my hand, and now they range,

Busily seeking with a continual change.

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