The Devonshire Manuscript/lament my losse my labor and my payne

←Payne of all payne the most grevos paine || width="200" align="right" | what shulde I saye→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 76v|thumb|389px f. [76v] 1    lament my losse my labor and my payne2    all ye that here mye wofull playnte and crye3    yf ever man might ons yor herte constrayne4    to pytie wordes{es} of right yt shulde bee I5    that sins . the tyme that youthe yn me ded rayne6    my plesaunte yeris to bondage ded aplye7    wiche as yt was I porpose to declare8    wherebye my frindes{es} hereafter maye be ware9    And if per{p+}chaunce some radrs list to muse10    what menith me so playnlye for to wright11    my good entente the fawte of yt shall skuse12    wiche meane nothing but trulye tendyght to endite 13    the crafte and care the greef and long abuse14    of lovors lawe and eke her puisssauntemight15    wiche though that men oft tymes bye paynis doth kno.16    lyttle thye wot wiche wayes the gylis doth growe17    yet well ye kno yt will renwe my smar{m'}te18    thus to reherse the paynes that I have past19    my hand dothe shake my pen skant dothe his parte20    my boddye quakes{es} my wyttis begynne to waste21    twixt heate and colde in fere I fele my herte22    {_i}{_a} pay panting for paine and thus as all agaste23    I do remayne wo skant wotting what I wryd24    perdon me then Rudelye tho I indyte25    And patientelye o Rerdre I the praye26    take in good parte this worke as yt ys men{_e}te27    {{th}+t+}{w+t+} and greve the not with aught that I shall saye28    sins with{w+t+} good will this boke a brode ys sente29    to tell men I howe in youthe I ded assaye30    what love ded mene and nowe I yt repente31    that moving me my frindes{es} might well be ware32    {_o}{_e} and kepe them fre from all suche payne and care /fs __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 235-36. this poem was entered by H8. Here the speaker warns a friend of the grief and abuse caused by the “law” of lovers. While some scholars have argued that Wyatt based his poem on Petrarch's Rime I, Rebholz notes that the poem does not have enough similarities to constitute a direct translation or imitation; the poem, Rebholz argues, might have instead belonged to a group of poems Wyatt intended to send abroad, and this poem would "have been both a preface and an envoy in the medieval tradition of farewells to books."ibid., 502-03 Works Cited