What Should I Say!

What Should I Say! 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 promis'd you,

And you promis'd me,

To be as true,

As I would be.

But since I see

Your double heart,

Farewell my part!

Thought 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 that you said

That I alway

Should be obey'd?

And thus betray'd,

Or that I wist!

Farewell, unkist!

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.