Love

Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely
My hert was set in thought right fermely.
Trusting by trouth to have had redresse :
But she hath made anothr promes,
And hath geven me leve full honestly.
Yet do I not reioyse it greately :
For on my faith I loved to surely :
But reason will that I do cesse
For to love her.

Syns that in love the paynes ben dedly,
Me thincke it best that reddely
I do retorn to my first adresse ;
For at this tyme to great is the prese
And perilles appere to abundauntely
For to love her.

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Wyatt, Thomas. “Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/7/.

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Wyatt, Thomas. “Ffor to love her for her lokes lovely.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/7/.

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