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First Line: Like as the swan towards her death
Last Line: "to cry: ""I died and you regard it not."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 70
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


Like as the swan towards her death
Doth strain her voice with doleful note,
Right so sing I with waste of breath,
I die! I die! and you regard it not.

I shall enforce my fainting breath
That all that hears this deadly note
Shall know that you doth cause my death:
I die! I die! and you regard it not.

Your unkindness hath sworn my death,
And changed hath my pleasant note
To painful sighs that stops my breath
I die! I die! and you regard it not.

Consumeth my life, faileth my breath;
Your fault is forger of this note,
Melting in tears, a cruel death:
I die! I die! and you regard it not.

My faith with me after my death
Buried shall be, and to this note
I do bequeath my very breath
To cry: "I died and you regard it not."





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