Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.
Songs and EpigramsOf the mean and sure Estate
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Of high estate; and let me here rejoice,
And use my life in quietness each dele,
Unknown in court that hath the wanton toys:
In hidden place my time shall slowly pass,
And when my years be past withouten noise,
Let me die old after the common trace;
For gripes of death doth he too hardly pass,
That knowen is to all, but to himself, alas,
He dieth unknown, dased with dreadful face.