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b'T Wyatt read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nI am as I am\\nby Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 \\u2013 1542)\\n\\nI am as I am and so will I be \\nBut how that I am none knoweth truly, \\nBe it evil be it well, be I bond be I free \\nI am as I am and so will I be. \\n\\nI lead my life indifferently, \\nI mean nothing but honestly, \\nAnd though folks judge diversely, \\nI am as I am and so will I die. \\n\\nI do not rejoice nor yet complain, \\nBoth mirth and sadness I do refrain, \\nAnd use the mean since folks will fain \\nYet I am as I am be it pleasure or pain. \\n\\nDivers do judge as they do true, \\nSome of pleasure and some of woe, \\nYet for all that no thing they know, \\nBut I am as I am wheresoever I go. \\n\\nBut since judgers do thus decay, \\nLet every man his judgement say: \\nI will it take in sport and play, \\nFor I am as I am who so ever say nay. \\n\\nWho judgeth well, well God him send; \\nWho judgeth evil, God them amend; \\nTo judge the best therefore intend, \\nFor I am as I am and so will I end. \\n\\nYet some that be that take delight \\nTo judge folks thought for envy and spite, \\nBut whether they judge me wrong or right, \\nI am as I am and so do I write. \\n\\nPraying you all that this do read, \\nTo trust it as you do your creed, \\nAnd not to think I change my weed, \\nFor I am as I am however I speed. \\n \\nBut how that is I leave to you; \\nJudge as ye list, false or true; \\nYe know no more than afore ye knew; \\nYet I am as I am whatever ensue. \\n\\nAnd from this mind I will not flee, \\nBut to you all that misjudge me, \\nI do protest as ye may see, \\nThat I am as I am and so will I be.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 18 February 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'