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Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt
As well as I, may spend his time in vain!
And graven with diamonds, in letters plain,
There is written her fair neck round about:
"Noli me tangere; for Cæsar’s I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame."

— Thomas Wyatt

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Therefore fear not to assay
To gather, ye that may,
The flower that this day
Is fresher than the next.

And I have leave to go, of her goodness;
And she also to use new-fangleness.

For as saith a proverb notable,
Each thing seeketh his semblable.

Whoso list to hunt? I know where is an hind!

I cannot * * * say that Pan
Passeth Apollo in music manyfold;
Praisé Sir Thopas for a noble tale,
And scorn the story that the Knighté told.

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