The Devonshire Manuscript/how shold I

←to my meshap alas I ffynd || width="200" align="right" | what nedythe lyff when I requyer→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 43r|thumb|389px f. [43r] 1    how shold I2    be so plesent3    in my semblent4    as my ffelws be5    not long ago6    yt chancet so7    as I walkyt alone8    I hard a man that19    that now and then10    hym selff thys ded bemone11    alas he sayd12    I am betrayt213    and ovterly vndwne14    hovm I ded trust15    and thynk so Iust16    another man has wone17    my sarwes due318    and hart so tru19    on her I ded bestow20    I never ment21    ffor to repent22    in welth nor yet in wo23    love ded asyen24    her to be myn25    and nat to love non nwe26    but who can bynd27    ther ffe [] ffeckell kynd28    that never wyll be tru29    the western wynd30    has tovrnyt her myd431    and blone her clen away32    wher be my welth33    my merth my helth34    ys turnd to gret decay35    wher ys the trowth36    wher ys ^5the owth37    that ye to me ded geve38    seche craffty words39    and wyly bords40    let no yovng man beleve41    how shold I42    be so plesent43    in my semblent44    as my ffelos beffynes __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. It is likely that the writer started the next line, realized the error, and crossed out the mistake.      2. This phrase resonates with Henry VIII's "Heard a may most pitiously."      3. Note the same spelling as that which Mary Shelton uses, for instance on her "undesired service" remark.      4. There is no macron to supply the word "mynd."      5. This is an inverse caret. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 298. this poem was entered by Margaret Douglas. The poem's genre derives from the medieval French chanson à personnages in which the speaker listens to the complaint of a young woman or male lover.ibid., 532. In this case the speaker overhears a complaint about the fickleness and changeability of women. Two instances of this poem appear in the manuscript. The second version was entered into the manuscript by H8; it is nine lines longer and titled "howe shulde I" (77r). Works Cited