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First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place
Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


Unstable dream, according to the place,
Be steadfast once; or else at least be true;
By tasted sweetness make me not to rue
The sudden loss of thy false feigned grace.
By good respect in such a dangerous case
Thou broughtest not her into this tossing mew,
But madest my sprite live my care to renew,
My body in tempest her succor to embrace.
The body dead, the sprite had his desire;
Painless was th' one, th' other in delight.
Why then, alas, did it not keep it right,
Returning to leap into the fire,
And where it was at wish it could not remain?
Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain.





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