| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Epigrams | | Of the mean and sure Estate |
| | | STAND, whoso list, upon the slipper wheel | |
| Of high estate; and let me here rejoice, | |
| And use my life in quietness each dele, | |
| Unknown in court that hath the wanton toys: | |
| In hidden place my time shall slowly pass, | 5 |
| And when my years be past withouten noise, | |
| Let me die old after the common trace; | |
| For gripes of death doth he too hardly pass, | |
| That knowen is to all, but to himself, alas, | |
| He dieth unknown, dased with dreadful face. | 10 | | | |
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