Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, alas, I may no more;
The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
I am of them that furthest come behind.
Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow; I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I, may spend his time in vain.
And graven with diamonds in letters plain,
There is written her fair neck round about,
"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold though I seem tame."
["NOTE: The deer in the royal parks can only be hunted by the king (Noli me tangere - Don't touch me), and this poem has largely been interpreted as the unrequited desire Wyatt had for Anne Boleyn, who was to become the doomed wife of Henry VIII."]