Who list to hunt, I know where is a hind,
But as for me (oh dear) I may no more.
The work in vain has worn me down so sore,
I'm one of whose who come in last in line.
Yet by no means may I my worn out mind
Draw from the deer, but as she flees me more
Faint must I seek her. I leave off -- no more,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I my spend his time in vain.
And wrought with gems in words so plain
Is writ, on her fair neck to mark her out:
"Don't touch me, for the king's I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame."
-- Sir Tom Watt
It's thought the girl is Anne, King Hal the Eighth's wife mark 2.0, with whom Sir Tom might have slept ere she caught the king's eye.
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