Love

What no perdy ye may be sure

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

What no perdy ye may be sure !
Thinck not to make me to your lure,
With wordes and chere so contrarieng,
Swete and sowre contrewaing;
To much it were still to endure ;
Trouth is tryed where craft is in ure ;
But though ye have hade my hertes cure
Trow ye I dote withoute ending?
What no perdy !

Though that with pain I do procure
For to forgett that ons was pure,
Within my hert shall still that thing
Unstable, unsure, and wavering
Be in my mynde withoute recure?
What no perdy !

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “What no perdy ye may be sure.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/13/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “What no perdy ye may be sure.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/13/.

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