What Should I Say

What should I say,

Since faith is dead,

And truth away

From you is fled?

Should I be led

With doubleness?

Nay, nay, mistress!

I promised you,

And you promised me,

To be as true

As I would be.

But since I see

Your double heart,

Farewell my part!

Though for to take

It is not my mind,

But to forsake

[One so unkind]

And as I find,

So will I trust:

Farewell, unjust!

Can ye say nay?

But you said

That I alway

Should be obeyed?

And thus betrayed

Or that I wiste—

Farewell, unkissed.

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)