A Revocation

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A Revocation
by Thomas Wyatt


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!


Thought for to take

'Tis not my mind;

But to forsake

One so unkind;
And as I find
So will I trust.
Farewell, unjust!


Can ye say nay

But that you said

That I alway

Should be obeyed?
And — thus betrayed
Or that I wist!
Farewell, unkist!
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