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A RENOUNCING OF LOVE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever!
Last Line: Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 31;farewell To Love;""farwell, Love, And All Thy Lawes For Ever"";
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
And scape forth, since liberty is lever.
Therefore, farewell: go trouble younger hearts,
And in me claim no more authority;
With idle youth go use thy property,
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts;
For hitherto though I have lost all my time,
Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.






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