| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The deserted Lover wisheth that his Rival might experience the same Fortune he himself had tasted |
| | | TO rail or jest, ye know I use it not; | |
| Though that such cause sometime in folks I find. | |
| And though to change ye list to set your mind. | |
| Love it who list, in faith I like it not. | |
| And if ye were to me, as ye are not, | 5 |
| I would be loth to see you so unkind: | |
| But since your fault must needs be so by kind; | |
| Though I hate it I pray you love it not. | |
| Things of great weight I never thought to crave, | |
| This is but small; of right deny it not: | 10 |
| Your feigning ways, as yet forget them not. | |
| But like reward let other Lovers have; | |
| That is to say, for service true and fast, | |
| Too long delays, and changing at the last. | | | | |
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