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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.

Songs and Epigrams

How by a Kiss he found both his Life and Death

NATURE, that gave the bee so feat a grace

To find honey of so wondrous fashion,

Hath taught the spider out of the same place

To fetch poison by strange alteration;

Though this be strange, it is a stranger case

With one kiss by secret operation

Both these at once in those your lips to find;

In change whereof I leave my heart behind.