Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever

Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever 

Farewell love and all thy laws forever; 
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more. 
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore 
To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour. 
In blind error when I did persever, 
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore, 
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store 
And scape forth, since liberty is lever. 
Therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts 
And in me claim no more authority. 
With idle youth go use thy property 
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts, 
For hitherto though I have lost all my time, 
Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb. 

Sir Thomas Wyatt