Social Commentaries
In court to serve decked with freshe aray
From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)
Social Commentaries
In court to serve decked with freshe aray,
Of sugred meates felyng the swete repast;
The life in bankets and sundry kindes of play,
Amid the presse of lordly lokes to waste,
Hath with it joynde oft times such bitter taste,
That who so ioyes such kinde of life to holde.
In prison ioyes fettred with cheines of gold.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “In court to serve decked with freshe aray.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/71/.
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