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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.

Songs and Epigrams

The Lady to Answer directly with Yea or Nay

MADAM, withouten many words,

Once I am sure you will, or no:

And if you will, then leave your bourds,

And use your wit, and shew it so:

For with a beck you shall me call;

And if of one, that burns alway,

Ye have pity or ruth at all,

Answer him fair with yea or nay.

If it be yea, I shall be fain;

If it be nay, friends as before;

You shall another man obtain,

And I mine own, and yours no more.