Love
Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise
From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)
Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise :
And on my faith, me thinck it goode reason,
To chaunge propose like after the season;
Ffor in every cas, to kepe still oon gyse
Ys mete for theim that would be taken wyse ;
And I ame not of suche maner condition :
But treted after a dyvers fasshion :
And thereupon my dyvernes doeth rise.
But you that blame this dyvernes moost,
Chaunge you no more, but still after oon rate,
Trete ye me well, and kepe ye in the same state
And while with me doeth dwell this weried goost.
My word nor I shall not be variable.
But alwaies oon your owne both ferme and stable.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/18/.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/18/.
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