The Devonshire Manuscript/Deme as ye list vppon goode cause

←Wyll ye se / What Wonderous love hathe wrought || width="200" align="right" | I am as I am and so wil I be→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 84v|thumb|389px f. [84v] 1    Deme as ye list vppon goode cause2    I maye and think of this or that3    but what or whye my self best knowes4    wherebye I think and fere not5    but thereunto I maye well think6    the doubtefull sentence of this clause7    I wolde yt ware not as I think8    I wolde I thought yt ware not9    ffor if I thought yt ware not soo.10    though yt ware so yt grevid me not11    vnto my thought yt ware as tho12    I harkenid tho I here not13    at that I see . I cannot wynk14    nor from{_o} mye thought so let it goo.15    I wolde yt ware not as I think16    I wolde I thought yt ware not17    Lo how my thought might make me free18    of that perchaunce yt nedith1 nott19    perchaunce no doubte the drede I see20    I shrink at that I bere not21    but in my harte this worde shall sink22    vnto the proffe maye better bee23    I wolde yt ware not & amp; as I think24    I wolde I thought yt ware not25    Yf yt be not shewe no cause whye26    I shulde so think / than care I not27    for I shall soo myself applie /28    to bee that I apere not29    that is as one that{{th}+t+} shall not shrink30    to be yor owne vntill I dye /31    and if yt be not as I think32    lyke wyse to think yt is notfs __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. In "nedith," h overwrites t. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 247-48. this poem was entered by H8. Rebholz notes, however, that the poem contains no external evidence for this attribution.ibid., 509. The speaker engages in a psychological reflection on the nature of perception and reality. “I am as I am and so wil I be” (85r), located on the next page, expresses a similar theme. Works Cited