Thursday, July 25, 2013

Exclusive picture of Prince George Alelexander Louis of Cambridge

He looks a bit dim to me. I do not think I would vote for him as king.

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

They flee from me

I am watching The Tudors on Netflix and have just got to episode 6 of season 1 where Thomas Wyatt reads his most famous poem. It is the best poem from that period and I share it below.

They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also, to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served
I would fain know what she hath deserved.