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The Devonshire Manuscript/Gyve place all ye that dothe reioise
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f. [77v] 1 Gyve place all ye that{{th}+t+} dothe reioise2 and loves panges{es} hathe clene forget3 let them{_e} drawe nere & here my voyse4 Whom love dothe force in paynes to frett5 for all of playnte my song is sett6 {_a}{{s}8} wiche long hathe seruid & nought can1gett7 A faithefull herte so trulye men{_e}te8 rewardid is full slenderelye9 {_e}{w+t+} a stedfaste faithe fwith good entente10 ys recom{_o}pensid craftelye11 Such hap dothe hap full craftelyevnhappelye212 {{th}+t+}{_e} to themthat mene but honestelye /13 with{w+t+} humble sute I have assayde14 to torne her cruell herted minde15 but for rewarde I am delaide16 and to mye welthe here eris be blinde17 lo thus bye chaunse I am{_a} assignide18 {{th}+e+}{{s}8} {w+t+} with stedfaste love to serue thee vnkinde19 What vaylithe trothe or stedfastenesse20 {w+t+}{{s}8} or still to serue without repreffe21 what vaylith faithe or gen{_e}tilnesse/22 where crueltie dothe raine as chefe /23 alas there is no greter greeff24 then{_e} for to love and lake releffe/25 Care dothe con{_o} straine me to com{_o} plaine26 of love & her vncertaintye27 wich gra{gA}untith nought but grete disdayne28 for losse of all my libretye29 alas this is extremytye30 for love to finde suche crueltye /31 for hertye love to finde such crueltie 332 alas it is a carefull lott33 and for to voide so fowle a mote34 there is no waye but slip the{{th}+e+} knott35 the gayne so colde the paine so hott36 prayse yt who list I like yt not /fs
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Notes & Glosses
1. See Petti. Anthony G. Petti. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977. 22. This is a variant, ornamental style of macron.
2. There is a line over both occasions of the word "hap," for an unknown reason.
3. The word "crueltie" here is of interest. The Egerton Manuscript has 'hate' in this position, which would rhyme with "mate / mote." It is possible that the word is a carryover from the previous line, and thus, scibal error, but the word is spelled differently and the lines are in different stanzas, which might reduce the likelihood of such an error.
Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 274-75. this poem was entered by H8. The speaker laments that honesty and steadfastness get little reward.
The word “crueltie” in line 31 is of interest in this transcription. The version of the poem in the Egerton Manuscript has “hate,” which would rhyme with “mote/mate” in line 33. The word in "Gyve place all ye that dothe reioise" may be a carryover from the previous line, thereby constituting a scibal error; yet the word is spelled differently and the lines are in different stanzas, which might reduce the likelihood of such an error.
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