| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The Lover abused renounceth Love |
| | | MY love to scorn, my service to retain, | |
| Therein, methought, you used cruelty; | |
| Since with good will I lost my liberty, | |
| To follow her which causeth all my pain. | |
| Might never woe yet cause me to refrain; | 5 |
| But only this, which is extremity, | |
| To give me nought, alas, nor to agree | |
| That, as I was, your man I might remain: | |
| But since that thus ye list to order me, | |
| That would have been your servant true and fast; | 10 |
| Displease you not, my doting time is past; | |
| And with my loss to leave I must agree: | |
| For as there is a certain time to rage, | |
| So is there time such madness to assuage. | | | | |
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