The Devonshire Manuscript/I abide and abide and better abide

←Dryven bye desire I dede this dede || width="200" align="right" | Absens absenting causithe me to complaine→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 81v|thumb|389px f. [81v] 1    I abide and abide and better{t'} abide2    {u'}{p3} and after the olde prouerbe the happie daye3    and ever my ladye to me dothe saye4    let me alone and I will pro{p3}uyde5    I abide and abide and tarrye the tyde6    and with{w+t+} abiding spede well ye maye7    thus do I abide I wott allwaye8    nother obtayning nor yet denied9    Aye me this long abidyng10    semithe to me as who sayethe11    a prolonging of a dieng dethe12    or a refusing of a deryrid thing13    moche ware it bettre for to be playne14    then to saye abide and yet shall not obtayne /fs __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 224-25. this poem was entered by H8. The speaker finds himself in a prolonged state of “dieng dethe” because the lady neither grants love, nor refuses him. Works Cited