The Devonshire Manuscript/And wylt thow leve me thus

←Marvell nomore Altho || width="200" align="right" | That tyme that myrthe dyd stere my shypp→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 17r|thumb|389px f. [17r] {9}{p`} 1    And wylt thow leve me thus2    Say nay say nay ffor shame       and thys chefly 3    to save the from the Blame4    of all my greffe & grame15    And wylt thow leve me thus6    Say nay Say nay7    And wylt thow leve me thus8    that hathe lovyd the so long9    in welthe & woo Among10    & ys thy hart so strong11    as for to leve me thus12    Say nay Say nay13    And wylt thos leve me thus14    that hathe gevyn the my hart215    neuer for to Depart16    nother for payn nor smart17    And wylt thow leve me thus18    Say nay Say nay19    And wylt thow leve me thus20    & have nomore Pyttye21    of hym that lovythe the22    helas thy cruellte23    & wylt thow leve me thus24    Say nay Say nayfynys quod{q+d+} W.s __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. "Grame" means sorrow.      2. Note the rough rhythm. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 169-70. this poem was entered by H2. The lover laments that his beloved has left. Here H2 follows his previous lettering style, using large and exaggerated majuscules for the words "Blame," "Depart," and "Pyttye," as well as the word "Say" in the refrain (see also "Bownd am I now & shall be styll" (8v), "May not thys hate from the estarte" (10v), "What menythe thys when I lye alone" (12v), "ys yt possyble" (14r), "My lute awake performe the last labor" (14v), and "Alas poore man what hap have I" (15v)). This poem is is also one of seventeen entries where Margaret Douglas marks “and thys.” Paul Remley has suggested that these annotations relate to another in-text annotation of hers, “lerne but to syng it” (81r), and may indicate a group of texts to be learned for entertaining.Paul Remley, "Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu," in Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts, ed. Peter C. Herman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 40-77. Works Cited