Tottel, Richard . "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"
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Some men would thinke of right

   The louer lamenteth other to haue the frutes of his seruice.


2.46.1: Some men would thinke of right to haue
2.46.2: For their true meaning some reward.
2.46.3: But while that I do crye and craue:
2.46.4: I se that other be preferd.
2.46.5: I gape for that I am debard.
2.46.6: I fare as doth the hounde at hatch:
2.46.7: The worse I spede, the lenger I watch.
2.46.8: My wastefull will is tried by trust:
2.46.9: My fond fansie is mine abuse.
2.46.10: For that I would refrayne my lust:
2.46.11: For mine auayle I can not chuse,
2.46.12: A will, and yet no power to vse.
2.46.13: A will, no will by reason iust,
2.46.14: Sins my will is at others lust.
2.46.15: They eat the hony, I hold the hyue.
2.46.16: I sowe the sede, they reape the corne.
2.46.17: I waste, they winne, I draw, they driue.
2.46.18: Theirs is the thanke, mine is the skorne.
2.46.19: I seke, they spede, in waste my winde is worne.
2.46.20: I gape, they get, and gredely I snatch:
2.46.21: Till wurse I spede, the lenger I watch.
2.46.22: I fast, they fede: they drynke, I thurst.
2.46.23: They laugh, I wayle: they ioye, I mourne.
2.46.24: They gayne, I lose: I haue the worst.
2.46.25: They whole, I sicke: they cold, I burne.



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2.46.26: They leape, I lye: they slepe, I tosse and turne,
2.46.27: I would, they may: I craue, they haue at will.
2.46.28: That helpeth them, lo, cruelty doth me kyll.