Love

Ffarewell Love and all thy lawes for ever

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Ffarewell Love and all thy lawes for ever.
Thy bayted hookes shall tangill me no more :
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
To perfaict welth my wit for to endever.

In blynde error when I did persever ;
Thy sherpe repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
Hath taught me to sett in tryfels no store :
And scape fourth, syns libertie is lever.

Therefor farewell, goo trouble younger hertes :
And in me clayme no more authoritie;
With idill yeuth goo use thy propertie;

And thereon spend thy many brittill dertes.
For hitherto though I have lost all my tyme.
Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughes to clyme.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Ffarewell Love and all thy lawes for ever.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/20/.

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Wyatt, Thomas. “Ffarewell Love and all thy lawes for ever.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/20/.

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