The Devonshire Manuscript/Alas poore man what hap have I

←My lute awake performe the last labor || width="200" align="right" | Marvell nomore Altho→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 15v|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 16r|thumb|389px f. [15v] 1    3 Alas poore man what hap have I2    that must fforbere that{{th}+t+} I love best3    I trow yt be my desteny4    neuer{u'} to lyve in quiet Rest5    No wonder ys tho I complayn6    not with{w+t+}owt cawse ye may be sure7    I seke ffor that I cannot attayn8    Whyche ys my mortall dysplesure9    Alas pore hart as in thys case10 {es}{w+t+}   With pensyff playntes thow art opprest11    Vnwysse thow were to desyre place12    Where as another ys possest113    Do what I can to ese thy smart14    thow wylt not let to love her styll15    hyrs & not myn I se thow Art16    let her do by the As she wyll17    A carefull carkace full of payn18    now hast thow lefft to morne for thee{{th}+e+}19    the hart ons gone the body ys slayn20    that euer{u'} I saw her wo ys mef. [16r] 21    Myn Iye alas was cawse of thys22    whyche her to se had neuer{u'} hys ffyll23    to me that syght full bytter ys24    in Recompence of my good wyll25    She that I sarve all other above26    hathe payd my hyre as ye may se27    I was vnhappy & that I prove28    to love Above my poore degreIohn crow to serve / 'v'2 hondyrd / __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. It is unusual to have each line of the stanza capitalized.      2. The lines represented by single quotes are upper virgules. Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed., Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 1978), 151-52. this poem was entered by H2. "Alas poore man what hap have I" describes the complaint of a poor man who loves above his degree. The first word of each line is capitalized, which is an unusual embellishment in the manuscript. Works Cited