The Devonshire Manuscript/Myn vnhappy chaunce / to home shall I playn

←to men that knows ye not || width="200" align="right" | Go burnynge siths vnto the frosen hert→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 60v|thumb|389px f. [60v] 1    Myn vnhappy chaunce / to home shall I playn2    for wher as / I love no grace do I fynd3    displesur I haue / with{w+t+} woo and payn4    tormented I am I wot not wher to wynde5    shall it be my fortune / thus to be assynd /6    that wher as I vulde be faynest beloved7    to be with{w+t+} disdayn / Cruelly rewardid /8    Offt haue I shoyd / my lovyng hert /9    {es}{w+t+} with wordes vnfayned and eke by lett10    {p+}{_n} by message all so / sent onn my part11    and all to cause / her love the gretter{t'}12    but yet of nowght I am the better{t'}13    for the more I sho to be beloved14    the more with{w+t+} disdayn I am rewardyd15    My truth nor yet my lowynge chere16    my harty mynd nor stedfastnes /17    my woofull lyff whiche I haue here18    with{w+t+} all my payf paynfull hewynes19    cannot not her cause for to redresse20    my hart whiche is to her vnfayned21    but with{w+t+} disdayn to be rewardydCauseles __NOTOC__ Commentary Transcribed by H7, the poem remains unattributed and is unique to this manuscript. While George F. Nott suggests that the last line of the poem, "Causeles," is actually a signature for “C. Lanselles,”George Frederick Nott, ed. The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder 1815-16. Vol. 2. London: T. Bensley, 1815. 591. readers can also interpret the word as “causeless” and the final line of the poem. Similar to other courtly love lyrics, the speaker's beloved disdains him. Thus, he finds only cruelty in her demeanor toward him. If readers interpret the final line as “causeless,” then the speaker would be indicating his position as undeserving of the lady's disdain for him. Works Cited