- What vaileth truth?!
- Thomas Wyatt
- Exported from Wikisource on 01/16/20
- What vaileth truth? or by it to take pain,
- To strive by steadfastness for to attain
- To be just and true and flee from doubleness;
- Sithens all alike, where ruleth craftiness,
- Rewarded is both false and plain?
- Soonest he speedeth that most can feign;
- True-meaning heart is had in disdain.
- Against deceit and doubleness,
- What vaileth truth?
- Deceived is he by crafty train
- That meaneth no guile and doth remain
- Within the trap without redress.
- But for to love, lo, such a mistress,
- Whose cruelty nothing can refrain,
- What vaileth truth?
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