The Devonshire Manuscript/Grudge on who liste this ys my lott

←Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde || width="200" align="right" | ffortune dothe frown→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 78v|thumb|389px f. [78v]1    Grudge on who liste this ys my lott2    no thing to want if it ware not3    my yeris be yong even as ye see4    all thinges{es} thereto dothe well agre5    yn faithe in face in iche degre6    no thing dothe wante as semithe me7    if yt ware not8    {es}{{th}+t+} {_e} Some men dothe saye that frindes be skace9    but I have founde as in this cace10    afrinde wiche gyvith to no man{_a}1 place11    {u'}{{th}+t+} but makis me happiest that euer was12    yf &c13    Groudge on who list this is my lot14    no thing to wan{_a}t if yt ware not15    a hart I have besidis all this16    that hathe my herte & I have his17    if he dothe well yt is my blis18    and when we mete no lak there is /19    yf & c20    {_a}{{th}+t+} {_a} Yf he can finde that can me please21    athinckes{es} he dois his owne hertes{es}  ease22    and likewise I coulde well apease23    the chefest cause of his misease24    yf &c25    Groudge on &c26    nothing to wan{_a}te &c27    A master{t'} eke god hathe me sente28    to hom my will is hollye ben{_e}te29    {_e}{{th}+t+} {{s}8} to serue & love for that intente30     both we {_e} {_o} that bothe/we2 might be well contente /31    yf c32    And here an ende yt dothe suffise33    {{th}+e+}{es} to speke fewe wordes among the wise /34    yet take this note before yor eyes35    my mirthe shulde doble ons or twise /36    yf yt ware notGroudge on who liste &c /fs __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. See Petti. Anthony G. Petti. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977. 22. This form of macron is an ornamental variant.      2. The division line between the words may have been a retroactive addition/clarification, since there is no space between the words. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 275-76. this poem was entered by H8. Rebholz notes that this poem could be considered a modified carol since the "burden" appears as a refrain.ibid., 523. Other versions of this poem are titled "My yeris be yong even as ye see.” Wyatt rarely employs a female speaker in his poetry; this particular female speaker expresses a similar sentiment of acceptance of fate as in the previous poem, “Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde” (77r). An interpretation of the poem as politicized verse depends on the meaning of “it” in the burden, “if it were not.” “Grudge not” was also one of Anne Boleyn’s early mottoes, which she had taken from the Burgundian court. A few other traces of Anne Boleyn's mottoes appear in the manuscript: “Ye know my herte my ladye dere” (73v) contains Boleyn’s motto, “Me and Myne,”ibid., 436. and the anagram “Am el mem” (67v) is possibly a reply by Anne Boleyn to Wyatt’s riddle “What word is that that changeth not though it be turned.” Works Cited