Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.
OdesThat Faith is dead, and true Love disregarded
W
Since Faith is dead,
And Truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?
Nay! nay! Mistress.
I promis’d you,
And you promis’d me,
To be as true,
As I would be.
But since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!
Thought for to take,
It is not my mind;
But to forsake
[One so unkind;]
And as I find,
So will I trust;
Farewell, unjust!
Can ye say nay,
But that you said
That I alway
Should be obey’d?
And thus betray’d,
Or that I wist!
Farewell, unkist!