The Devonshire Manuscript/Tanglid I was yn loves snare

←Mye love toke skorne my servise to retaine || width="200" align="right" | lengre to muse→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 79v|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 80r|thumb|389px f. [79v] 1    Tanglid I was yn loves snare2    opprest wich{w+t+} payne tormen{_e} te wich{w+t+}  care3    of grefe right sure of Ioye full f bare4    clene in dispaire bye crueltye5    but ha ha ha full well is me6    for I am now at libretye7    the wofull dayes so full of paine8    the verye night all spent in vayne9    the labor lost for so small gayne f. [80r] 10    to wryt them all yt will not bee11    but ha. ha. ha. &c12    ----- 113    Everye thing that{{th}+t+} faire dothe sho14    {p'}{_e} when prof is made yt previthe not soo15    but tornithe mirthe to bittre woo.16    wiche in this case full well I see17    but ha. &c18    ----- 219    To grete desire was my guide20    and wanton{_o} will went bye my syde21    hope rulid still. and made me byde22    of loves craft thextremitye the extemity 23    but ha.24    ----- 325    with{w+t+} faynid wordes{es} with{w+t+}  ware but winde26    to long delayes I was assind27    her wylye lokes{es} my wittes{es}  ded blinde28    thus as she wolde I ded agree29    but ha. c30    ----- 431    was never birde tanglid yn lyme32    that brake awaye yn bettre tyme33    then I that Rotten bowis ded clyme34    and had no hurte but scapid fre35    now ha ha ha. full well is me36    for I am nowe at libretyefs __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. The second line of the refrain is assumed to be here.      2. The second line of the refrain is assumed to be here.      3. The second line of the refrain is assumed to be here.      4. The second line of the refrain is assumed to be here. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 262-63. this poem was entered by H8. The speaker rejoices because of his new-found freedom from the lady’s cruelty. Rebholz suggests that Serafino's Fui serrato nel dolore may have inspired Wyatt's laughing refrain and sense of entanglement.ibid., 515. The grafted and rotten bough image is a common image in courtly love poetry. For other examples of this image in the manuscript, see “Yff reason govern fantasye" (45v), “This rotyd greff will not but growe” (47v), and “Nowe fare well love and theye lawes forever” (75r). After each stanza, H8 increasingly abbreviates the two-line chorus from the first four words (“but ha. ha. ha”) to the first two. Works Cited