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THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED ENJOYING
OF HIS LOVE, COMPLAINETH THAT THE DREAM
IS NOT EITHER LONGER OR TRUER.
 NSTABLE dream,
according to the place,
Be steadfast once, or else at least be true :
By tasted sweetness make me not to rue
The sudden loss of thy false fained grace.
By good respect, in such a dangerous case,
Thou broughtest not her into these tossing seas ;
But madest my sprite to live my care t' encrease,
My body in tempest her delight t'embrace.
The body dead, the spirit had his desire ;
Painless was th' one, the other in delight.
Why then, alas, did it not keep it right,
But thus return to leap in to the fire ;
And where it was at wish, could not remain?
Such mocks of dreams do turn to deadly pain.
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[AJ Notes:
according, befitting.
dead, i.e., asleep.]
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Text source:
Yeowell, Jams, Ed. The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. 4-5.
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