The one best known begins-- What word is that that changeth not, Though it be turned and made in twain?
It is mine ANNA, God it wot, etc.
That unfortunate queen--to possess whose charms Henry VIII.

had repudiated Catherine of Arragon, and who was soon to be brought to the block after trial on the gravest charges--which we do not think substantiated--was, however, frivolous and imprudent, and liked such impassioned attentions--indeed, may be said to have suffered for them.
Wyatt was styled by Camden "splendide doctus," but his learning, however honorable to him, was not of much benefit to the world; for his works are few, and most of them amatory--"songs and sonnets"-- full of love and lovers: as a makeweight, in _foro conscientiae_, he paraphrased the penitential Psalms.

An excellent comment this on the age of Henry VIII., when the monarch possessed with lust attempted the reformation of the Church.

That Wyatt looked with favor upon the Reformation is indicated by one of his remarks to the king: "Heavens! that a man cannot repent him of his sins without the Pope's leave!" Imprisoned several times during the reign of Henry, after that monarch's death he favored the accession of Lady Jane Grey, and, with other of her adherents, was executed for high treason on the 11th of April, 1554.

We have spoken of the spirit of the age.