| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The Lover confesseth him in Love with Phyllis |
| | | IF waker care; if sudden pale colour; | |
| If many sighs with little speech to plain: | |
| Now joy, now woe, if they my chere distain; | |
| For hope of small, if much to fear therefore; | |
| To haste or slack, my pace to less, or more; | 5 |
| Be sign of love, then do I love again. | |
| If thou ask whom; sure, since I did refrain | |
| Brunet, that set my wealth in such a roar, | |
| The unfeigned cheer of Phyllis hath the place | |
| That Brunet had; she hath, and ever shall. | 10 |
| She from myself now hath me in her grace; | |
| She hath in hand my wit, my will, and all. | |
| My heart alone well worthy she doth stay, | |
| Without whose help scant do I live a day. | | | | |
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