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

Songs and Epigrams

The Lover that fled Love now follows it with his Harm

SOMETIME I fled the fire, that me so brent,

By sea, by land, by water, and by wind;

And now the coals I follow that be quent,

From Dover to Calais, with willing mind.

Lo, how desire is both forth sprung, and spent;

And he may see, that whilom was so blind,

And all his labour laughs he now to scorn,

Meshed in the briers, that erst was only torn.