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Excerpt from The Surrey and Wyatt Anthology: 1509-1547 A. D Strictly speaking, this Collection of our Poetry during the reign of Henry VIII should be called The Wyatt and Surrey Anthology, for Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder was not only the nobler man and the nobler Poet of the two: but it was he that brought the Sonnet Stanza, together with Terta Rima and Blank Verse, into England from Italy. It is however customary to say Surrey and Wyatt, simply because the former was a Peer. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Alas! Madam! for stealing of a kiss, Have I so much your mind therein offended? Have I then done so grievously amiss, That, by no means, the matter may be amended? Then, revenge you! and the next way is this. Another kiss shall have my life through ended! For to my mouth the first my heart did suck; The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.