Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1503154236. A Revocation
WHAT should I say? | |
—Since Faith is dead, | |
And Truth away | |
From you is fled? | |
Should I be led | 5 |
With doubleness? | |
Nay! nay! mistress. | |
I promised you, | |
And you promised me, | |
To be as true | 10 |
As I would be. | |
But since I see | |
Your double heart, | |
Farewell my part! | |
Thought for to take | 15 |
‘Tis not my mind; | |
But to forsake | |
One so unkind; | |
And as I find | |
So will I trust. | 20 |
Farewell, unjust! | |
Can ye say nay | |
But that you said | |
That I alway | |
Should be obeyed? | 25 |
And—thus betrayed | |
Or that I wist! | |
Farewell, unkist! |