Sir Thomas Wyatt's "They Flee from Me that Sometime Did Me Seek" displays love on the speaker's part, and the sacrifice he gave as a result. His love interest leaves him and his feelings are forfeited in the process. The act of love itself is what allows a person to put themselves into a relationship and they risk being hurt in effect. This is the sacrifice, the trust one person puts in another to not hurt them.
In this poem, the women originally take this chance ("they have put themselves in danger / To take bread at my hand"), but in the end it is he whose love is sacrificed when he truly falls in love ("I unkindly so am served").
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