I abide and abide and better abide

I abide and abide and better abide,
And, after the olde proverbe, the happie daye :
And ever my ladye to me dothe saye,
" Let me alone and I will provyde.

I abide and abide and tarrye the tyde
And with abiding spede well ye maye :
Thus do I abide I wott allwaye,
Nother obtayning nor yet denied.

Aye me ! this long abidyng
Semithe to me as who sayethe
A prolonging of a dieng dethe,

Or a refusing of a desyred thing.
Moche ware it bettre for to be playne.
Then to saye abide and yet shall not obtayne.