The Devonshire Manuscript/Farewell all my wellfare

←Bownd am I now & shall be styll || width="200" align="right" | May not thys hate from the estarte→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 9v|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 10r|thumb|389px f. [9v] 1    3# Ffarewell all my wellfare2    my shwe ys trode awry3    and thys now may I karke & care4    to syng lullay by by5    Alas what shall I do there do to6    there ys no shyffte to helpe me now7    Who made hytt suche a fence8    to love for love agayn9 {p'}{{th}+t+}    god wott that my pretence10    was but to ease hys payn11    ffor I had ruthe to se hys wo12    alas more fole why dyd I so13    Ffor he frome me ys gone14    & makes{es} there at a game15    & hathe leffte me Alone16    to suffer sorow & shame17    alas he ys vnkynd dowtles18    to leve me thus all comfortlesf. [10r]19    Hytt ys A grevows smarte20    to suffer paynes{es} & sorowe21    but most grevyd my hart22    he leyde hys feythe to borow23    & falshode hathe hys feythe & trowthe24    & he forsworne by many a nothe an oath 25    All ye lovers perde26    hathe cawse to blame hys dede27    Whyche shall example be28    to lett yow off yowre spede29    let neuer{u'} woman A gayn30    trust to suche wordes{es} as men can fayn31    Ffor I vnto my coste32    am warnyng to yow all33    that{{th}+t+} they whom you trust most34    sonest dysceyve yow shall35    But complaynt cannot redresse36    of my gret greff the gret excessefynys s __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 311. this poem was entered by H2. This poem was written from a woman’s perspective. We should, however, exercise caution in ascribing a female author to the poem. For a discussion of female voices, see Julia Boffey, "Women Authors and Women's Literacy in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England," in Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500, ed. Carole M. Meale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 169. and Elizabeth D. Harvey, Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts (London: Routledge, 1992), 15-24. Rebholz notes that the speaker may be lamenting an unfaithful lover; in particular, line 4 -- that is, "To sing lullay by by" -- denotes her dilemma by alluding to the lullabies she sings to her illegitimate child.Rebholz, 536. H2 paid particular attention to the presentation of this poem: it begins on the verso of f.9 and continues on the recto of f.10 (facing pages). The stanzas are evenly spaced for the maximum visual effect of balance. "Farewell all my wellfare" is one of seventeen entries in which Margaret Douglas marks: “and thys.” Paul Remley suggests that these annotations relate to another in-text annotation of hers, “lerne but to syng it” (81r), and may indicate a group of texts to be learned for entertaining.Paul Remley, "Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu," in Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts, ed. Peter C. Herman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 40-77. Works Cited