| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | That Faith is dead, and true Love disregarded |
| | | 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 promis’d you, | |
| And you promis’d 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 |
| It is 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 obey’d? | 25 |
| And thus betray’d, | |
| Or that I wist! | |
| Farewell, unkist! | | | | |
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