| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | That Caution should be used in Love |
| | | TAKE heed by time, lest ye be spied: | |
| Your loving eyes can it not hide, | |
| At last the truth will sure be tried; | |
| Therefore, take heed! | |
| For some there be of crafty kind, | 5 |
| Though you show no part of your mind, | |
| Surely their eyes can ye not blind; | |
| Therefore, take heed! | |
| For in like case theirselves hath been, | |
| And thought right sure none had them seen, | 10 |
| But it was not as they did ween, | |
| Therefore, take heed! | |
| Although they be of divers schools, | |
| And well can use all crafty tools, | |
| At length they prove themselves but fools. | 15 |
| Therefore, take heed! | |
| If they might take you in that trap, | |
| They would soon leave it in your lap; | |
| To love unspied is but a hap; | |
| Therefore, take heed! | 20 | | | |
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