The Devonshire Manuscript/Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede

←Front Matter || width="200" align="right" | O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaynge→ The Devonshire Manuscript 2r|thumb|389px f. [2r] 1  Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede s12    yor lovyng Iyes cane {n'} not hide3    at last the trwthe will sure be tryde therefore take hede 4    for Som ther be of crafite Kynde5    thowe yow shew no parte of yor mynde6    sewrlye there Ies ye can te not nott blynde therefore take hede for in lyke case there sselv of dyveris skools 7    ffor in lyke case ther selves ha hathe bene8    & thoʒtthought ryght sure none had theym sene9    but it was not as thye did wene2 therefore take hede 10    all thowgth theye be of dyvers skoolles {es} 11{es}  use   & will can yose all craftye toolles12    at leynthe thye prove them selfs bott fooll therefor take 13    yff theye myght take yow in that trape14    theye wolde sone leve yet in yor lape15    to love vnspyed ys but a happe therefore th take hed TTh W3 Notes & Glosses      1. The shape of the "s" mark suggests that it was made by Margaret Douglas.      2. "Wene" means to think, surmise, or consider.      3. Th W: This is a designation, perhaps of authorship, by an unidentified hand. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 151. the poem was entered by H1 and is unique to this manuscript. An adaption of this poem appears as a ballad in a later Elizabethan manuscript, British Library Harley MS 7578 (fol. 116v), entitled "Tak hede by tym whiles youth doth Rayn." John Milsom suggests that this adaptation is a moralization of Wyatt's poem.John Milsom, "Songs and Society in early Tudor London," in Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, ed. Iain Fenlon, vol. 16 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 267. Works Cited