The Devonshire Manuscript/What menythe thys when I lye alone

←At most myscheffe || width="200" align="right" | Pacyence tho I have not→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 12v|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 13r|thumb|389px f. [12v] 1    What menythe thys when I lye alone2    I tosse I turne I syghe I g [] e grone3    My bedd me semys as hard as stone4    What menys thys5    I syghe I pleyne contynually6    the clothes that{{th}+t+} on my bedd do ly7    always methynk they lye awry8    What menys thys9    In slumbers oft for fere I quake10    ffor hete & cold I burne & shake11    ffor lake of slepe my hede dothe ake12    What menys thys13    A mornyngs then when I do rysse14    I t [] rn torne vnto my wontyd gysse15    all day after muse & devysse16    What menys thys17    & yff per{p+}chanse by me there passe18    she vnto whome I Sy sue for gra{gA}ce19    the cold blood forsakythe my face20    What menythe thys f. [13r] 21    But yff I sytte nere her by22    with{w+t+} lowd voyce my hart dothe cry23    & yet my mowthe ys dome & dry24    What menys thys25    to aske ffor helpe no hart I have26    my tong dothe fayle What I shuld crave27    yet inwardly I Rage & Rave28    What menys thys29    Thus have I passyd many A yere30    & many A day tho nowght Apere31    but most of that{{th}+t+} that most I fere32    What menys thysfynys quod{q+d+} Wyatt s __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 139. this poem was entered by H2. The poem depicts a lover suffering from unrequited love. Rebholz notes that the first two stanzas may be a deliberate imitation of Ovid's Amores I, ii, 1-4 and the refrain may translate the first words of "Esse quid hoc dicam."Rebholz, 414. Contrary to H2’s attention to visual presentation, (see "Farewell all my wellfare" (9v) and "May not thys hate from the estarte" (10v)), the two parts of the poem are on facing pages, 12v and 13r, but there are five stanzas on one page and three on the other, thereby creating an imbalance in the poem's presentation. Works Cited