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EPIGRAM: 20 by THOMAS WYATT

Poet Analysis

First Line: DESIRE, ALAS, MY MASTER AND MY FOE
Last Line: EVEN NOW BY HATE AGAIN I DOUBT THE SAME.
Subject(s): DESIRE; ENEMIES; HATE;

Desire, alas, my master and my foe,
So sore altered thyself, how mayst thou see?
Sometime I sought that drives me to and fro;
Sometime thou leddst that leddeth thee and me.
What reason is to rule thy subjects so
By forced law and mutability?
For where by thee I doubted to have blame,
Even now by hate again I doubt the same.



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