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" And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon: Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute: this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste.... "
Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. Robinson - Page 222
by Bernhard ten Brink - 1896
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...cease my lute : this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that we begun ; Now is this song both sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done. That each thing is hurt of itself. WHY fearest thou thy outward foe, When thou thyself thy harm dost...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...cease my Lute! this is my last Labour that thou and I shall waste; And ended is that we begun ; Now is this song both sung and past: My Lute, be still! for I have done. SIR THOM4S WYAT. 1530. Attached to the Earl of Surrey by a congeniality of disposition and taste, WYAT...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...cease, my lute : this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that we begun ; Now is this Song both sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done. '. love will needs that I mnst love, Of very force I must agree : And since no chance may it remove,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...cease, my lute ! this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that I begun ; Now is this song both sung and past : My lute ! be still, for I have done. FROM HIS SONGS AND EPIGRAMS. A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE COULD LOVE. A FACE that should content...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...cease my lute ! this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that I begun ; Now is this song both sung and past : My lute ! be still, for I have done. " This," says Dr. Nott, "is one of the most beautiful Odes in our language. It is as beautifully arranged...
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The History of English Poetry,: From the Close of the Eleventh to ..., Volume 3

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...lute, this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall wast ; And ended is that that we begonne. Now is this song both sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done. k Our author has more imitations, and even translations, from the Italian poets than Surrey : and he...
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The Cheltenham anthology, original poems and translations, ed. by W.H. Halpin

Cheltenham anthology - 1825 - 192 pages
...my lute: this is the last " Labour that thou and I shall waste, " And ended is that we began ; " Now is this song both sung and past, " My lute be still, for I have done. — " Sir T. Wyatt. FAREWELL, my Muse! this parting strain Maun be the last that e'er we twain Shall...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1831 - 346 pages
...cease, my lute, this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall waste ; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past ; My lute, be still, for I have done. THE LOVER REJOICETH THE ENJOYING OF HIS LOVE. ONCE, as methought, fortune me kiss'd, And bade me ask...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1831 - 356 pages
...cease, my lute, this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall waste; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past; My lute, be still, for I have done. THE LOVER REJOICETH THE ENJOYING OF HIS LOVE. ONCE, as methought, fortune me kiss'd, And bade me ask...
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The history of English poetry. To which are prefixed, three ..., Volume 3

Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 pages
...lute, this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall wast ; And ended is that that we begonne. Now is this song both sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done.k count of whom, see the following section. ' wherefore. Mr. Ashby remarks that it is almost ag...
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