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The Devonshire Manuscript/I lowe lovyd and so doithe she
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f. [6r] I lovey love loveyd and so dothe1 I lowe lovyd and so doithe she2 and yet in love wee sufer still3 The cause is strange as simeth me4 to lowe so will and want or will5 O deadly yea o grevous smart6 worse then refuse vnhappe gaine7 I lowe whoeuer {u'} playd thes part8 to lovve so will and leve in payn9 Was euer {u'} hart soo will agrede10 Sines lowe was lowe as I do trowe11 that in ther lowe soo evell dyd sped12 to low so will and leve in woo13 Thes morne wele bothe and l hathe don long14 with {w+t+} wofull plaint and carefull voice15 alas alas it is a grevous wrowng16 To love so will and not reioce17 and here an end of all or mone18 with {w+t+} sighinge of my brethe is s skant19 Sines of myshappe vr1 es {es} is alone ours 20 To lowe so will and it to wantt21 But they that causer is of thes22 of all owr cares god send then part23 that they may knowe2 what greve it es24 tl to lowe so will and leve in smartamene
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Notes & Glosses
1. This abbreviation is unique to the manuscript.
2. This word has been read by others as "trow."
Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 267. this poem was entered by H1.
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