They Flee From Me

Sir Thomas Wyatt

1503 to 1542

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