SONNETS: Farewell Love and all thy laws for ever

Wyatt Devonshire MS: Original Text Reference.
 Publication Date: 1557.
Ed. (text): F. D. Hoeniger; (e-text): I. Lancashire.
Rep. Poetry: 3RP.1.3.
{octave}
Farewell Love and all thy laws for ever,	a
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;	b
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore		b
To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.	a
In blind error when I did persever,		a
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,	b
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store	b
And scape forth, since liberty is lever.	a
{turn; sestet}
Therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts	c
And in me claim no more authority;		d
With idle youth go use thy property		d
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts.	c
{and a concluding couplet}
For hitherto though I have lost all my time,	e
Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb.	e

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