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TO A LADY TO ANSWER DIRECTLY WITH YEA OR NAY by THOMAS WYATT

Poet Analysis

First Line: MADAM, WITHOUTEN MANY WORDS
Last Line: AND I MINE OWN, AND YOURS NO MORE.
Subject(s): COURTSHIP; LOVE;
Madam, withouten many words,
Once, I am sure ye will, or no;
And if ye will, then leave your bords [jests],
And use your wit, and show it so.

And with a beck ye shall me call,
And if of one that burneth alway,
Ye have any pity at all,
Answer him fair with yea or nay.

If it be yea, I shall be fain;
If it be nay, friends as before;
Ye shall another man obtain,
And I mine own, and yours no more.


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