The Devonshire Manuscript/The fruite of all the seruise that I serue

←Resounde my voyse ye woodes that herithe me plaine || width="200" align="right" | Sins ye delight to kno→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 72r|thumb|389px f. [72r] 1    The fruite of all the ser{{s}8}uise that I ser{{s}8} ue2    Dispaire doth repe such haples hap have I3    but tho he have no powre to make me swarve4    yet bye the fire for colde I fele I dye /5    In paradis for hunger{g'} still I sterve6    and In the flowde / for thurste to deth I drye7    so tantalus am I and yn worst payne8    andyd es{es} my helpe / & helples dothe remayne /s amidst fs __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 100. this poem was entered by H8. This poem features an interesting use of Petrarch’s contraries: the speaker feels cold by the fire, hungers in paradise, and thirsts in a flood. Despite the proximity of the adored, the speaker remains despondent. Works Cited