Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss

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Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss by Sir Thomas Wyatt

 Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss
Have I so much your mind there offended?
Have I then done so grievously amiss
That by no means it may be amended? 

Then revenge you, and the next way is this:
Another kiss shall have my life ended, 
For to my mouth the first my heart did suck; 
The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck.

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