The Devonshire Manuscript/Now may I morne as one off late

←It was my choyse It Was my chaunce || width="200" align="right" | Wyth sorowful syghes and wondes smart→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 26r|thumb|389px The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 25v|thumb|389px f. [25v] f. [26r] 1    Now may I morne as one off late2    Dryuen by force from y my delyte3    and can not se my louely mate4    th to whom for ever my hart ys plyte5    Alas that euer pryson stronge6    sholde such too louers seperate7    yet thowgh ower bodys suffereth wronge8    ower harts shalbe off one estate9    I wyll not swerue I yow Insure10    for gold nor yet for worldly fere11    but lyke as yerne I wyll Indure12    suche faythful loue to yow I bere13    Thus fare ye well to me most dere14    off all the world both most and lest15    I pray yow be off ryght good chere16    and thynke on me that louys yow best17    and I wyll promyse yow agayne18    to thynke off yow I wyll not lett119    for nothyng cowld relesse my payne20    but to thynke on yow my louer swetefinis __NOTOC__ Notes & Glosses      1. This use of "let" is similar to that in Henry VIII's "Pastyme with good company." Commentary Attributed to Lord Thomas Howard, William A. Ringler, Jr., Michael Rudick, and Susan J. Rigler, Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript, 1501-1558 (London: Manswell, 1992), 167. the poem was entered by TH2. Typical of courtly love literature, the speaker emphasizes the pain that occurs when lovers are separated from each other. Works Cited