The Devonshire Manuscript/Wyll ye se / What Wonderous love hathe wrought
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f. [84r]
1 Wyll ye se / What Wonderous love hathe wrought1
2 then come and loke at me
3 there nede no where els to be sought
4 yn me / ye maye thim see /
5 ffor vnto that that men maye ssee
6 most monstruous thing of kinde
7 my self maye beste com{_o}parid bee
8 love hathe me soo assignid
9 there is a Rok in the salte floode
10 a Rook of suche nature /
11 that drawithe the yron from{_o} the woode
12 and levithe the ship vnsure /
13 She is the Rok . the ship am I
14 that Rok my dedelie ffoo /
15 that drawithe me there / where I muste die /
16 and Robbithe my harte me ffroo /
17 A burde there fliethe and that but on
18 of her this thing enswethe /
19 then that when{_e} her dayes be spent and gone /
20 withe fyre she renewithe /
21 and I withe here maye well com{_o}pare
22 my love that is alone
23 the flame whereof doth aye repare
24 my lif when yt is gone /
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Notes & Glosses
edit 1. This line is larger, darker, and longer than the others.
Commentary
editAttributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,[1] this poem was entered by H8. The speaker compares the lady’s power to a magnetic stone and a phoenix -- images which rarely appear in this manuscript. Rebholz notes that Wyatt loosely imitated the first two stanzas of Petrarch's Rime 135 for this poem.[2]
H8 entered the first line in larger characters than the rest of the lyric. He or she also frequently overlines a word in this section, but his or her overlining leaves the significance of the words indeterminate. H8 also entered “I finde no peace and all my warre is donne" (82r-82v) with extensive overlining.
Works Cited
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