| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | A renouncing of Love |
| | | FAREWELL, Love, and all thy laws for ever; | |
| Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more: | |
| Senec, and Plato, call me from thy lore, | |
| To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour; | |
| In blind error when I did persever, | 5 |
| Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore, | |
| Taught me in trifles that I set no store; | |
| But scaped forth thence, since, liberty is lever: | |
| Therefore, farewell, go trouble younger hearts, | |
| And in me claim no more authority: | 10 |
| With idle youth go use thy property, | |
| And thereon spend thy many brittle darts: | |
| For, hitherto though I have lost my time, | |
| Me list no longer rotten boughs to clime. | | | | |
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