Love

Take hede be tyme lest ye be spyde

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)

Love

Take hede be tyme lest ye be spyde.
Your lovyng lyes can not hyde,
At last the trouthe will sure be tryde
Therefore take hede !

For som there be of craftye kynde,
Thowe yow shew no parte of your mynde,
Surely e their lyes yo can not blynde,
Therefore take hede !

Ffor in lyke case themselves hathe bene.
And thowght ryght sure none had them sene.
But it was not as they did wene
Therefore take hede !

All thowgh theye be of dyvers skooles
And well can use all craftye toolles
At lengthe they prove themselves but fooles
Therefore take hede !

Yf theye myght take you in that trape,
They wolde sone leve yt in your lape,
To love unspyde is but a happe,
Therefore take hede !

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Take hede be tyme lest ye be spyde.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/126/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Take hede be tyme lest ye be spyde.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/126/.

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