Love

You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)

Love

You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce.
And live in lust and joyful jolitie,
Arise, for shame, do away your sluggardie;
A rise, I say, do may some observaunce !

Let me in bed lye dreming in mischaunce ;
Let me remembre the happs most unhappy.
That me betide in May most comonly.
As oon whome love list litil to advaunce.

Sephanes saide true that my nativitie
Mischaunced was with the ruler of the May :
He gest, I prove of that, the veritie;

In May, my welth, and eke my liff I say
Have stonde so oft in such perplexitie.
Reioyse ! let me dreme of your felicitie.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/40/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/40/.

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