thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none

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    1    thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none
    2    {es}{{th}+u+} but thou must love him nedes bye good reason
    3    for as the pro{p2}verbe saith right notable
    4    everye thinksekith his semblable /
    5    {_on}{_o} {{th}+u+} and thou hast thyne of thy owne condicion
    6    yet ys yt not the thing I passe vppon
    7    nother hot nor colde is my affection
    8    for sins thi hert is this so mutable /
    9    thou haste no faith /

    10    I demid the trwe with{w+t+}out exception
    11    but I perceyve I lacked dastrestion discretion 
    12    to fasten faith to wordes{es} so dobtable
    13    thye thought is to light and variable /
    14    to chaunge so oft without  occasion occacoion{_i}{w+t+} 
    15    thou hast no faith

    Commentary

    Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,[1] this poem was entered by H8. The speaker complains of his love's fickleness, which was a common theme in medieval and early Tudor courtly love poetry. Wyatt adopts the French rondeau structure for his poem, a form which consists of thirteen lines, two stanzas of four lines, five lines in the last stanza, and a refrain that appears after each stanza. In this particular rondeau, Wyatt omits the refrain after the first stanza.

    The two refrains following are aligned to the right.

    Works Cited

    1. ↑ R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 73-74.


    Textual Notes

    Texts Collated

    LEge41

    Collation

    1 thou] Thou LEge41 haste] hast LEge41 eke] LEge41
    2 bye good] by LEge41
    3 the proverbe saith right] saieth a proverbe LEge41
    4 everye thinkg] eche thing LEge41 sekith] seketh LEge41 semblable /] semblable LEge41
    5 thyne] thyn LEge41 owne condicion] conditions LEge41
    6 ys yt] is it LEge41 vppon] on LEge41
    7 nother] nor LEge41 hot] hote LEge41 colde] cold LEge41 is my] ofis myn LEge41
    8 sins] syns LEge41 thi] thyn LEge41 this] LEge41 mutable /] mutable LEge41
    9 haste] hast LEge41 faith /] faith LEge41
    10 demid] thought LEge41 trwe] true / LEge41 without] withoute LEge41
    11 perceyve] perceve LEge41 dastrestiondiscretion] discretion LEge41
    12 fasten] fasshion LEge41 so doblable] mutable LEge41
    13 thye] thy LEge41 and variable /] & variable LEge41
    14 without] withoute LEge41 occacion] occasion LEge41
    15 thou] Thou LEge41