The Devonshire Manuscript/Me list no more to sing

←My hope alas hath me abusid || width="200" align="right" | Nowe fare well love and theye lawes forever→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 74v|thumb|389px f. [74v] 1    Me list no more to sing2    of love nor of suche thing3    howe sore that{{th}+t+} yt me wring4    for what I song or spake5    men dede my songis mistake /6    my songes{es} ware to defuse7    theye made folke to muse8    therefor me to excuse9    theye shall be song more plaine10    nothr of Ioye nor payne /11    What vailith then to sy skyp12    at fructe over the lipp13    w1for frute with{w+t+}outen taste14    Dothe noght but rott & waste15    What vailith vndre kaye16    to kepe treasure alwaye17    that never shall se daye18    yf yt be not vsid19    yt ys but abusid20    What vaylethe the flowre21    to stond still and whither.22    yf no man yt savor23    yt servis onlye for sight24    and fadith towardes{es} night25    Therefore fere not tessaye to essay 26    to gadre ye that ye maye 27    the flower that this daye28    is fresher then the next29    marke well I saye this text30    Let not the frute be lost31    that is desired moste32    Delight shall quite the{{th}+e+} coste33    yf hit be tane in tyme /34    small labor is to clyme35    and as for siche treasure36    that makithe the the Richer37    and no dele the porer38    when it is gyven or lente39    {_e}{es} me thinckes yt ware well spente40    Yf this be undre miste41    and not well playnlye wyste42    vndrestonde me who lyste 43    for I reke not a bene44    I wott what I doo meanfs __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. The mark may be scribal and intended to designate the omitted line. The same mark occurs on 74r. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 170-71. this poem was entered by H8 and elaborates on a carpe diem theme. H8 uses various modes to mark stanzas, but does so inconsistently. Some stanzas have one or a combination of the following: the first word of the first line is capitalized, the lines following the first line are indented, or a space is left to separate the stanza from the following. Some stanzas have no mark to differentiate them (especially stanzas seven and eight). Works Cited