They Flee From Me
Sir Thomas Wyatt
1503 to 1542
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When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
Twenty times better; but once in special,
That now are wild and do not remember
But since that I so kindly am served
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
But all is turned thorough my gentleness
I would fain know what she hath deserved.
Busily seeking with a continual change.
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
That sometime they put themself in danger
And she also, to use newfangleness.
Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”
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