 And falsed faith must needs be known; The fault so great, the case so strange, Of right it must abroad be blown; Then since that by thine own desert My songs do tell how true thou art, Blame not my lute!  The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt - Page 99by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1831 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 348 pages
...The faults so great, the case so strange, Of right, it must abroad be blown! Then, since that, by thy own desert, My Songs do tell how true thou art, Blame...deserved to have blame ! Change thou thy way, so evil begun ! And then my Lute shall sound that same ; But if till then, my fingers play, By thy desert,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...falsed faith must needs be known ; The faults so great, the case so strange ; Of right it must abroad be 's hand, Love cannot die. On, then, to glory run ; Be a crown and kingdom art,Blame not my Lute ! Blame but thyself that hast mndone, And well deserved to have blame; Change... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1902 - 386 pages
...falsed faith must needs be known ; The faults so great, the case so strange ; Of right it must abroad be blown: Then since that by thine own desert My songs...have blame ; Change thou thy way, so evil begone, But if till then my fingers play, And then my Lute shall sound that same ; By thy desert their wonted... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...thyself some other way ; And though the songs which I indite Do quit thy change with rightful spite, Blame not my Lute ! Blame but thyself that hast misdone,...By thy desert their wonted way, Blame not my Lute ! SIR T. WYATT. 1114. FORGET NOT YET FORGET not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...falsed faith must needs be known ; The faults so great, the case so strange, Of right it must abroad be blown ; Then since that by thine own desert My songs...deserved to have blame ; Change thou thy way, so evil begun, And then my Lute shall sound that same; But if till then my fingers play By thy desert their... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...must needs be known; And faults so great, the cause so strange; Of right it must abroad be blown; 26 and with fish, Let each guest bring himself, and...be venison, just fresh from the plains; 6 Our Burke 30 Change thou thy way, so evil begone, And then my lute shall sound that same; But if till then my... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...great, the case so strange, Of right it must abroad be blown ; Then since that by thine own desart My songs do tell how true thou art, Blame not my lute...deserved to have blame ; Change thou thy way, so evil begun, And then my lute shall sound that same ; But if till then my fingers play By thy desart their... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...thine own desert My songs do tell how true thou art, Blame not my lute. Blame but thyself that has misdone And well deserved to have blame. Change thou thy way so evil begun And then my lute shall sound that same. But if till then my fingers play, By thy desert, their... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...it tenderly, Or else it will plain and then appear: (1. 1—5) Blame not my lute for he must sound 2 therein now doth lodge a noble peer. 437 POETRY QUOTATIONS 438 47 That through thy prowess and vi begun, And then my lute shall sound that same: But if till then my fingers play By thy desert their... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...wonted way." Accompanying the lute figure are simple statements ("Spite asketh spite"), simple reasoning ("Then since that by thine own desert / My songs do tell how true thou art / Blame not my lute"), and a large number of imperatives and statements of obligation or compulsion ("must sound," "must agree,"... | |
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