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The Devonshire Manuscript/Sins you will nedes that I shall sing
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f. [73v] and thys1 {{th}+t+}{es} Sins you will nedesthat I shall sing2 take yt in worth siche as I have3 plentye of plaint mone & mornin{_i}g4 yn depe dispaire / & delye payne5 boteles for boote crying to crave6 to crave yn vayne /7 {d,}{w+t+} {m'} {_a} Suche hammers worke within my hede8 that sounde nought els vnto my eris9 but faste at borde / & wake abede{d,}10 suche tune the tem{_e}pre to my song11 {_a}{y+t+} to waile my wrong that I wante teris12 to waile my wrong13 Dethe and dispaire afore my face14 my dayes dekaes1 my grefe doth gro15 the cause thereof is in this place16 whan crueltye dothe still con{_o}straine17 for to reioise tho yt be woo.18 to here me plaine19 A brokin lute vntunid stringes{es}20 with{w+t+} such a song maye well bere part21 {es}{{th}+t+} that nether pleasith him that singes22 nor them that{{th}+t+} here / but her alone23 that with{w+t+} her herte wold straine my herte24 to here yt grone /25 Yf it greve you to here this same26 that you do fele but in my voyse27 considre then what plesaunt game28 I do sustaine in everye parte29 to cause me sing or to reioise30 with{w+t+}in my herte /fs
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Notes & Glosses
1. Such a grammatical error is so unusual that it is likely the scribe erred in pluralizing 'dekaes.'
Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 153-54. this poem was entered by H8. This poem is is also one of seventeen entries where Margaret Douglas marks “and thys.” Paul Remley has suggested that these annotations relate to another in-text annotation of hers, “lerne but to syng it” (on "now all of chaunge" (81r)), and may indicate a group of texts to be learned for entertaining.Paul Remley. "Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu." Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 50. Although Douglas's annotation appears above this poem, it may refer to both lyrics on the page.
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