托馬斯.懷特經典詩歌：別了，愛
Farewell, Love 別了，愛
by Sir Thomas Wyatt 托馬斯·懷特爵士
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 endeavor,
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that prikth aye so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store
And escape forth since liberty is lever.
別了，愛以及你所有的法度，
你的誘鉤再也無法把我纏絞;
塞尼卡和柏拉圖否定你那套，
讓我竭盡所能追求完美財富。
我卻盲目地一錯再錯入歧途，
你厲聲拒絕刺得我倍受煎熬，
你教導我別對瑣事斤斤計較，
掙脫束縛因爲自由纔會幸福。
Therefore farewell, go trouble younger hearts,
And in me claim no more authority;
With idle youth go use thy property,
And therein spend thy many brittle darts.
For hitherto though I have lost all my time,
Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.
別了，去攪擾那些年輕的心，
對我別再宣稱你是什麼權威;
對懶散青年把你的能耐發揮，
把你的支支利箭都射向他們。
迄今我雖失去我全部的時光，
卻不再徒勞攀爬那根爛樹樁。
