| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Epigrams | | The Lover blameth his Love for renting of the Letter he sent her |
| | | SUFFICED not, Madam, that you did tear | |
| My woful heart, but thus also to rent | |
| The weeping paper that to you I sent; | |
| Whereof each letter was written with a tear? | |
| Could not my present pains, alas, suffice | 5 |
| Your greedy heart? and that my heart doth feel | |
| Torments, that prick more sharper than the steel? | |
| But new and new must to my lot arise. | |
| Use then my death: So shall your cruelty, | |
| Spite of your spite, rid me from all my smart, | 10 |
| And I no more such torments of the heart | |
| Feel as I do: This shall you gain thereby. | | | | |
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