The Devonshire Manuscript/lengre to muse

←Tanglid I was yn loves snare || width="200" align="right" | love doth againe→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 80r|thumb|389px f. [80r] 1    lengre to muse2    on{_o}n this refuse3    I will not vse4    but studye to forget5    letting all goo6    sins well I kno7    to be my foo8    her herte is fermelye sett9    sins my intent10    so trulye mente 11    Cannot con{_o}tente12    her minde as I doo see13    to tell you playne14    yt ware yn vayne15    for so small gaine16    to lose my libretie17    for if he thryve18    that will goo stryve19    a shipp to dryve20    againste the streme and winde21    vndoutedlye22    then thryve shuld I23    to love trulye24    a cruell hertid mynde /25    But sithe that{{th}+t+} so26    the worlde dothe goo27    that everye woo28    bye yelding dothe incresse29    as I have tolde30    I wille bolde31    therebye my paynis to cese32    prayeng you all33    that after{t'} shall34    bye fortune fall35    ynto this folishe trade36    have yn yor minde37    as I do finde38    that oft be kinde39    all women{_e}s love do fade40    Wherefore a paist pace41    Come take my place42    some man{_a} that hase43    a lust to berne the fete44    for sins that she45    refusithe me46    I must agre47    & studye to forgettfs __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 313-14. this poem was entered by H8. The speaker reasons that it would be folly to continue loving a lady who spurns him. The structure and rhyme scheme of the lyric suggests that a line might be missing between lines 30 and 31. Works Cited