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  Titian. Venus and Adonis, c1555.
 
 THE LOVER ABUSED RENOUNCETH LOVE.
 
 
 
 
        
          
            |  Y love to scorn, my service to retain, Therein, methought, you used cruelty ;
 Since with good will I lost my liberty,
 To follow her which causeth all my pain.2
 Might never woe yet cause me to refrain ;
 But only this, which is extremity,
 To give me nought, alas, nor to agree
 That, as I was, your man I might remain :
 But since that thus ye list to order me,
 That would have been your servant true and fast ;
 Displease you not, my doting time is past ;
 And with my loss to leave I must agree :
 For as there is a certain time to rage,
 So is there time such madness to assuage.
 
 
 
 |  2 This line is supplied in
Nott's edition from the Devonshire MS.
 
 
 
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 Text source:
 Yeowell, James, Ed. The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
 London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. 11-12.
 
 
 
 
 
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