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

Songs and Epigrams

Of his Love that pricked her Finger with a Needle

SHE sat, and sewed, that hath done me the wrong;

Whereof I plain, and have done many a day:

And, whilst she heard my plaint, in piteous song

She wish’d my heart the sampler, that it lay.

The blind master, whom I have served so long,

Grudging to hear that he did hear her say,

Made her own weapon do her finger bleed,

To feel if pricking were so good indeed.