That pleasure is mixed with euery paine. +Imitates Serafino’s strambotto, Opere (1516), f. 117r, ‘Ogni pungent & uenenosa spina/Se uede à qualche tempo esser fiorita,/… Chogni cosa che noce há pur uirtute’, reprinted in Muir and Thomson , p. 317. Other copies in: L: Egerton 2711, fol. 50; L: Add. 17492, fol. 72v; L: Add. 36529, fol. 32; L: Harl. 78, fol. 27. Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt. Structure: 8: ottava
V Enemous thronesmisprint for ‘thorns’ that are so sharp and kene, Beare flowers we sesee full fresh and faire of hueappearance, colour . +Lines 1-2: ‘Venemous … hue’: proverbial, ‘Every rose grows from prickles’, Tilley, Proverbs , R179. Poison is also put in medicine. And vnto man his helth doth oft renue. +Lines 3-4: ‘Poison … renue’: proverbial, ‘One poison expels another’, Tilley, Proverbs , P457. (5) The fier that all thinges eke consumeth cleane May hurt and heale: then if that this be true. +Lines 5-6: ‘The fier … true’: proverbial, ‘Fire is as hurtful as healthful’, Tilley, Proverbs , F258. I trust sometime my harme may be my health, Sinssince euery woe is ioyned with some wealthwell-being, happiness . +Proverbial: ‘No weal without woe’, Tilley, Proverbs , W188.
A riddle of a gift geuen by a Ladie: +Imitated by George Gascoigne, ‘A Riddle’, ‘Hearbes’, Posies (1575): ‘A Lady once did aske of me/ This preatie thing in privitie:/… Meritum petere, grave’ (pp. 143-4). In a copy of the 1587 edition is the note, ‘I think it is a kisse’, (O: Seld. 8o H.43.Art, fol. 40r). Other copies in: ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 60v; O: Rawl. Poet. 172, fol. 3v. Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt. Structure: 8: mono 4-not
A Lady gaue me a gift she had not, And I receiued her gift which I toke not, She gaue it me willingly, and yet she would not, And I receiued it, albeit, I could not, (5) If she giue it me, I forcecare not, And if she take it againe she cares not. Consterconstrue, guess what this is and tel not, For I am fast sworne I may not.
That speaking or profering bringes alway speding. +Appears only in Tottel . Author: attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt. Structure: 6: aa10
S Peake thou and spede where will or power ought helpth; +Proverbial: ‘Speak and speed, ask and have’, Tilley, Proverbs , S719. Where power doth wantis lacking wil must be wonne by welth. For nede will spede, where will workes not his kinde, And gaine, thy foes thy frendes shall cause thee finde, (5) For sute and golde, what do not they obtaine, +Proverbial: ‘What will not (cannot) money (gold) do?’, Tilley, Proverbs
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