| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1503–1542 |
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| 36. A Revocation |
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| 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. | |
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| 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! | |
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| 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! | |
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| Can ye say nay | |
| But that you said | |
| That I alway | |
| Should be obeyed? | 25 |
| And—thus betrayed | |
| Or that I wist! | |
| Farewell, unkist! | |
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