Love

Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

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.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/18/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/18/.

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