Love

Who hath herd of suche crueltye before

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Who hath herd of suche crueltye before ?
That when my plaint remembred her my woo
That caused it; she, cruell more and more,
Wisshed eche stitche, as she did sit and soo,
Had prykt myn hert for to encrese my sore.
And, as I thinck, she thought it had ben so :
For as she thought : " This is his hert in dede " :
She pricked herd, and made herself to blede.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Who hath herd of suche crueltye before.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/45/.

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Wyatt, Thomas. “Who hath herd of suche crueltye before.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/45/.

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