Thomas Wyatt Quotes

• The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Pain, Defense, Gains

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• Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Life, Farewell, Law

  1557 'Farewell, Love'.

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• For like to like, the proverb saith.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Comparison

  Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt (1816). “The Works”, p.27

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• Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
  But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
  The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
  I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
  Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
  Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
  Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
  Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
  Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
  As well as I may spend his time in vain.
  And graven with diamonds in letters plain
  There is written, her fair neck round about:
  Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
  And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Mean, Wind, Mind

  1557 'Whoso List to Hunt'. The subject of the poem is thought to Be Anne Boleyn. See Bible 118:23.

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• ...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Equine, Seems

  Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso List To Hunt, I Know Where Is An Hind”

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• Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
  And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Noli Me Tangere, Seems

  1557 'Whoso List to Hunt'. The subject of the poem is thought to Be Anne Boleyn. See Bible 118:23.

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• For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Notable, Comparison

  Sir Thomas Wyatt (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.84

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