| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The deserted Lover consoleth himself with remembrance that all Women are by nature fickle |
| | | DIVERS doth use, as I have heard and know, | |
| When that to change their Ladies do begin | |
| To mourn, and wail, and never for to lynn; | |
| Hoping thereby to ’pease their painful woe. | |
| And some there be that when it chanceth so | 5 |
| That women change, and hate where love hath been, | |
| They call them false, and think with words to win | |
| The hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow. | |
| But as for me, though that by chance indeed | |
| Change hath outworn the favour that I had, | 10 |
| I will not wail, lament, nor yet be sad, | |
| Nor call her false that falsely did me feed; | |
| But let it pass, and think it is of kind | |
| That often change doth please a woman’s mind. | | | | |
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