Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.
Songs and EpigramsOf the Mother that eat her Child at the Siege of Jerusalem
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With furious famine standeth at debate;
The mother saith, ‘O child unhappy,
Return thy blood where thou hadst milk of late;
Yield me those limbs that I made unto thee,
And enter there where thou were generate;
For of one body against all nature,
To another must I make sepulture.’