The Devonshire Manuscript/Who hath more cawse for to complayne

←Alas that men be so vngent || width="200" align="right" | I may well say with Ioyfull harte→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 28r|thumb|389px f. [28r] 1    Who hath more cawse for to complayne2    or to lament hys sorow and payne3    Then I wych louys and louyd agayne4    yet can not optayne5    I can not optayne that{{th}+t+} ys my none6    Wych cawsyth me styll to make great mone7    To se thus ryght with{w+t+} wronge ouerthrowne8    as not vnknowne9    It ys not vnknowen how wrongfully10    The wyll me hyr for to deny11    whom I wyll loue moste hartely12    vntyll I dye13    vntyll I dye I wyll not lett14    To ss1 seke her owt in cold and het15    wych hath my hart as fermly set16    as tonge or pen{_e}ne can yt repetfinis __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. The crossout is indistinct. Commentary Attributed to Lord Thomas Howard, William A. Ringler, Jr., Michael Rudick, and Susan J. Rigler, Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript, 1501-1558 (London: Manswell, 1992), 252. this poem was entered into the Devonshire Manuscript by TH2. Lines 8-9 allude to the injustice of the speaker’s situation and his entourage's knowledge of his plight. The phrase “my none” resonates with “my none swete wyfe” in the preceding poem, “Alas that men be so vngent” (27v). Works Cited