The Devonshire Manuscript/As power & wytt wyll me Assyst

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[20r] 1    3As power & wytt wyll me Assyst2    my wyll shall wyll evyn as ye lyst3    For as ye lyst my wyll ys bent4    in euer{u'}ythyng to be content5    to ser{{s}8}ve in love tyll lyff be spent6    and to Reward my love thus ment    evyn as ye lyst7    To fayn or fable ys not my mynd8    nor to Refuce suche as I fynd9    But as a lambe of yumble kynd10    or byrd in cage to be Assynd    &c11    When all the flokk ys cum & gone12    myn eye & hart agreythe in one13    hathe chosyn yow only Alone14    To be my Ioy or elles{es} my mone    &c15    Ioy yf pytty apere in place16    mone yf dysdayn do shew hys face17    yet crave I not as in thys case18    but as ye lede to folow the trace    &c19    Sum in wordes{es} muche love can fayn20  {es} {es}  {_u} and sum for wordes gyve wordes agayn21    thus wordes{es}  for wordes{es}  in wordes{es}  Remayn22    & yet at last wordes{es}  do optayn    &c23    To crave in wordes{es} I wyll exchew24    & love in dede I wyll ensew25    yt ys my mynd bothe hole & trew26    & for my trewthe I pray yow rew    &c27    Dere hart I bydd yor hart farewell28    with{w+t+} better hart than tong can tell29    yet take thys tale as trew as gospell30    ye may my lyff save or expell    &cfynys __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 270-71. this poem was entered by H2. In his 1815 edition, George Frederick Nott argues that the poem may be an imitation of a Spanish form called Glosa in which the first couplet introduces the theme of the poem and commented on by the subsequent stanzas.George Frederick Nott, ed., The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder 1815-16, vol. 2 (London: Bensley, 1815). Agnes Foxwell similarly commented that the structure follows a tradition of Middle English poems in which the first couplet or verse acts as the text for the poem.Agnes Kate Foxwell, ed., The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (London: University of London Press, 1913). Following Foxwell's argument, Rebholz suggests that the lyric could be a modified carol: "[i]f the poem stems from the carol tradition, it might best be described as in the form of a modified carol, in which a part of the burden is repeated after each stanza (521).Rebholz, 521. These types of carols, as John Stevens notes, are often found in early Tudor song-books.John Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961), 351-425. 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