The Devonshire Manuscript/What helpythe hope of happy hape

←Yff reason govern fantasye || width="200" align="right" | This rotyd greff will not but growe→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 46v|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 47r|thumb|389px f. [46v] 1    What helpythe hope of happy hape2    when hap will hap vnhappyly3    what helpythe hope to fle the trape4    which hape doth set malycyowsly5    my hope and hape hap con{_o}trary6    For as my hope for right doth long7    So dothe my hap Awarde{d,} me wrong8    And thus my hape my hope hath turnd9    Clere owte of hope in to dispayre10    fore thowgh[t] I burne and long have burnde11    In fyry love of one most fayere12    wher love for love shuld kepe the chayre113    ther my myshap ys over prest14    to sett disdayne for my vnrest15    She knowth my love of long tym ment16    She knowith my trewth nothing ys hide17    she knowith I loue in good intent18    As euer man A woman dide19    yett love for love in vayn askeyde20    what clowde hath browght this thunderclape21    shall I blam here nay I blame happf. [47r]  ffor wher as 22    For wher as hape list to Arisse23    I So bothe other she & other cane24    for lytyll love moch love devyse25    And somtyme hape doth love so skan26    Some one to leve here faythfull man27    Whome sayvyng bondshyp nowght doth crave28    For hym she owght nor can not have29    How beyt that hap makyth you so doo30    So say I not nor other wisse31    But what such happs by hap hap too32    hap dayly showith in excersyce33    As power will serve I youe advisse34    to fle such hape for hap that growith35    And pardon me your man tom trowght36    Some tak no care wher they haue cure37    Some ^haue no cure and yett tak care38    and so do I swett hart be sure39    my love most care for your welfare40    I love ^youe more then I declare41    But as for hap happyng this yll42    hap shall I hate hape what hap willffinis / __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. Chere? Commentary Written in TH1's hand, this poem remains unattributed and is unique to this manuscript. This poem might be a response to Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem “Hap hath happed” which is not found in this manuscript: the speaker, describing his unreturned love, finds the lady blameless and instead accuses Fortune of his unrewarded outcome. The poem seems carefully corrected throughout the page.