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

Songs and Epigrams

Of dissembling Words

THROUGHOUT the world if it were sought,

Fair words enough a man shall find;

They be good cheap, they cost right nought,

Their substance is but only wind;

But well to say and so to mean,

That sweet accord is seldom seen.