The Devonshire Manuscript/the losse is small to lose suche on

←Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno || width="200" align="right" | Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 77v|thumb|389px f. [77v] 1    the losse is small to sose suche on2    that{{th}+t+} shrynckith for a slendr naye3    {{th}+t+}{{th}+ei+} & wit thei lak that wolde make mone4    tho all suche peakes{es} ware wipid awaye /fs __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 229. this poem was entered by H8. In this humourous lyric, the female speaker believes that losing a lover put off by a small “nay” is trivial, and that shrinking lovers who complain lack wit because they do not face any real adversity. This short verse may be a comment on the poem above it, “Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno” (77v). Works Cited