Love

Ye know my herte my ladye dere

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Ye know my herte my ladye dere,
That sins the tyme I was your thrall,
I have bene yours both hole and clere,
Tho my rewarde hath bene but small :
So am I yet and more than all.
And ye kno well how I have served.
As yf ye prove, it shall apere
Howe well how longe
How faithefulye :
And soffred wrong
How patientlye !
Then sins that I have never swervid
Let not my paines be ondeservid.
Ye know also though ye saye naye
That you alone are my desire ;
And you alone it is that maye
Asswage my fervent flaming (ire;
Succour me then I you require.
Ye know it were a just request.
Sins ye do cause my heat I say.
If that I bourne
That ye will warme.
And not to tourne
Sending suche flame from frosen Brest
Against all right for my unrest.
And I know well how frowerdly
Ye have mystaken my true intent,
And hetherto how wrongfully
I have founde cause for to repent.
Butt deth shall ryd me redely,
If your hert do not relent;
And I knowe well all this ye knowe,
That I and myne.
And all I have,
Ye may assiyne.
To spill or save.
Why are ye then so cruel ffoo
Unto your owne that loveth you so?

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Ye know my herte my ladye dere.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/86/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Ye know my herte my ladye dere.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/86/.

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