Sir Thomas More

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    “What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)

    “There was a saviour
    Rarer than radium,
    Commoner than water, crueller than truth;
    Children kept from the sun
    Assembled at his tongue
    To hear the golden note turn in a groove....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)