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The Devonshire Manuscript/Syns so ye please to here me playn
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f. [53r] 1 Syns so ye please to here me playn2 & that ye do reioyce my smart3 me lyst no longer to Remayn4 to suche as be so overthwart5 but cursyd be that cruell hart6 & whyche hathe pro{p2}curyd a careles mynd7 ffor me & myn vnfaynyd smart8 & forcythe me suche fautes to fynd9 more than to muche I am assuryd10 of thyn entent wherto to trust11 A spedles proffe I haue enduryd12 & now I leue yt to them that lustffinis
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Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 229. this poem was entered by H6. The speaker resolves to turn away from the lady, whose cruel heart has rejected him and rejoiced at his pain. In his study of Wyatt's lyrics, Winifred Maynard notes that this poem's ability to be sung to the tune of "fforget not yet the tryde entent" (54v) testifies to Wyatt's competence at writing quatrains.Winifred Maynard. "The Lyrics of Wyatt: Poems or Songs?" The Review of English Studies 16.61 (1965): 4.
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