The Devonshire Manuscript/the losse is small to lose suche on
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f. [77v]
1 the losse is small to sose suche on
2 that{{th}+t+} shrynckith for a slendr naye
3 {{th}+t+}{{th}+ei+} & wit thei lak that wolde make mone
4 tho all suche peakes{es} ware wipid awaye /
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Commentary
editAttributed 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).
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