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←Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & knoSpight hathe no powre to make me sadde→
The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 77v

f. [77v]

1    the losse is small to sose suche on
2    that[[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]] shrynckith for a slendr naye
3    [[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]][[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+ei+}]] & wit thei lak that wolde make mone
4    tho all suche peakes{es} ware wipid awaye /

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Commentary

Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,[1] this poem was entered by H8. In this humourous lyric, the female speaker believes that losing a lover put off by a small “nay” is trivial, and that shrinking lovers who complain lack wit because they do not face any real adversity. This short verse may be a comment on the poem above it, “Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno” (77v).

Works Cited

  1. ↑ R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 229.


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