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

Songs and Epigrams

Of disappointed Purpose by Negligence

OF Carthage he that worthy warrior

Could overcome, but could not use his chance;

And I likewise of all my long endeavour

The sharp conquest though fortune did advance,

Ne could I use. The hold that is given over

I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance

Of war my peace, reward of all my pain,

At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain.