| 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; | 5 |
| 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; | 10 |
| You shall another man obtain, | |
| And I mine own, and yours no more. | | | | |
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