| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | A Complaint of his Lady’s Cruelty |
| | | SINCE ye delight to know, | |
| That my torment and woe | |
| Should still increase | |
| Without release, | |
| I shall enforce me so, | 5 |
| That life and all shall go | |
| For to content your cruelness. | |
| And so this grievous train, | |
| That I too long sustain, | |
| Shall sometime cesse, | 10 |
| And have redress, | |
| And you also remain, | |
| Full pleased with my pain, | |
| For to content your cruelness. | |
| Unless that be too light, | 15 |
| And that ye would ye might, | |
| See the distress, | |
| And heaviness, | |
| Of one slain out right, | |
| Therewith to please your sight, | 20 |
| And to content your cruelness. | |
| Then in your cruel mood | |
| Would God! forthwith ye would | |
| With force express, | |
| My heart oppress, | 25 |
| To do your heart such good, | |
| To see me bathe in blood, | |
| For to content your cruelness. | |
| Then could ye ask no more; | |
| Then should ye ease my sore, | 30 |
| And the excess | |
| Of my distress; | |
| And you should evermore | |
| Defamed be therefore, | |
| For to repent your cruelness. | 35 | | | |
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