 ABIDE, and abide ; and
better abide,
After the old proverb the happy day
And ever my Lady to me doth say,
' Let me alone, and I will provide.'
I abide, and abide, and tarry the tide,
And with abiding speed well ye may.
Thus do I abide I wot alway,
N' other obtaining, nor yet denied.
Aye me ! this long abiding
Seemeth to me, as who sayeth
A prolonging of a dying death,
Or a refusing of a desired thing.
Much were it better for to be plain,
Than to say, 'Abide,' and yet not obtain.
2 According to Dr. Nott,
the allusion in this sonnet is to
Anne Boleyn.
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Yeowell, James, Ed. The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
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