Thomas Wyatt

You That in Love Find Luck and Abundance

You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce,
     And live in lust and joyful jolitie,
     Arise, for shame, do away your sluggardie;
     A rise, I say, do may some observaunce!
  Let me in bed lye dreming in mischaunce ;
     Let me remembre the happs most unhappy,
     That me betide in May most comonly,
     As oon whome love list litil to advaunce.
  Sephanes saide true that my nativitie
     Mischaunced was with the ruler of the May:
     He gest, I prove of that, the veritie ;
  In May, my welth, and eke my liff I say
     Have stonde so oft in such perplexitie.
     Reioyse! let me dreme of your felicitie.
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