Thomas Wyati(I503–1542)
What Should I Say
What Should I Say
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled
Should I be led
With doubleness
Nay, nay, Mistress!
I promised you
And you promised me,
To be as true
As I would be;
But since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!5
Though for to take
It is not my mind
But to forsake—
I am not blind—
And as I find
So will I trust.
Farewell, unjust!
Can ye say nay
But you said
That I alwayalways
Should be obeyed;
And thus betrayed
Ora that I wist-before / knew
Farewell, unkist!unkissed