The Devonshire Manuscript

Incipit	Folio
Front Matter	01r-01v
Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede	02r
O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaynge	02v
My harte I gave the not to do it paine	03r
My pen take payn a lytyll space	03v
At last withdrawe yowre cruellte	04r-04v
To wette yowr Iye withouten teare	05r
I lowe lovyd and so doithe she	06r
Suffryng in sorow in hope to attayn	06v-07r
My ferefull hope from me ys fledd	07v
Yowre ferefull hope cannot prevayle	08r
Bownd am I now & shall be styll	08v-09r
Farewell all my wellfare	09v-10r
May not thys hate from the estarte	10v
Yff I had sufferd thys to yow vnware	11r
The hart & servys to yow profferd	11v
At most myscheffe	12r
What menythe thys when I lye alone	12v-13r
Pacyence tho I have not	13v
ys yt possyble	14r
My lute awake performe the last labor	14v-15r
Alas poore man what hap have I	15v-16r
Marvell nomore Altho	16v
And wylt thow leve me thus	17r
That tyme that myrthe dyd stere my shypp	17v
The restfull place Revyver of my smarte	18r
All women have vertues noble & excelent	18v
What no perde ye may be sure	19r
Was neuer yet fyle half so well fylyd	19v
As power & wytt wyll me Assyst	20r
Sum tyme I syghe sumtyme I syng	20v
Pacyence of all my smart	21r
Who wold haue euer thowght	21r
In faythe methynkes yt ys no Ryght	21v-22r
The knot which fyrst my hart dyd strayn	22v
He Robyn gentyll robyn	22v
A wel I hawe at other lost	22v
The knot which fyrst my hart did strayn	23r-v
Hey Robyn Ioly Robyn tell me	24r-v
It was my choyse It Was my chaunce	24v-25r
Now may I morne as one off late	26r
Wyth sorowful syghes and wondes smart	26v
What thyng shold cawse me to be sad	27r
Alas that men be so vngent	27v
Who hath more cawse for to complayne	28r
I may well say with Ioyfull harte	28v
To yowr gentyll letters an answere to resyte	29r
And now my pen alas wyth wyche I wryte	29v
O very lord / o loue / o god alas	29v
O ye louers that hygh vpon the whele	30r
It was my choyse yt was no chaunce /	30v
Suche Wayn thowght / as wonted to myslede me /	31r
So vnwarely was never no man cawght /	32r
The knott whych ffyrst my hart dyd strayn /	33r-v
Yff fansy wuld favour	34v
The Wandryng gadlyng in the somer tyde /	35v
The lyvely sparkes that yssue frome those Iies /	36v
Tho I can not yowr cruelte constrayne /	37v
Somtyme I fled the fyre that me brent /	38v
What deth ys worse then thys /	39v
thy promese was to loue me best	40r
I se the change ffrom that that was	40v-41r
ther ys no cure ffor care off miyd	41r
as ffor my part I know no thyng	41r-v
to my meshap alas I ffynd	42r-v
how shold I	43r
what nedythe lyff when I requyer	43r-43v-44r
and thys be thys ye may	44r
Too yoye In payne my will	44v
Yff reason govern fantasye	45r-46r
What helpythe hope of happy hape	46v-47r
This rotyd greff will not but growe	47v
Hartte aprest with dessperott thoughtes	47v-48r
So feble is the therd that dothe the burden staye	49r-50v
ffull well yt maye be sene	51r
Syns loue ys suche that as ye wott	51v-52r
Lo how I seke & sew to haue	52v
My loue ys lyke vnto theternall fyre	53r
Syns so ye please to here me playn	53r
Yf in the worlde there be more woo	53v
Now must I lerne to lyue at rest	54r
fforget not yet the tryde entent	54v
o happy dames that may enbrayes	55r-v
My hope is yow for to obtaine,	57r
when I bethynk my wontet ways	58r
O myserable sorow withowten cure	58v
Sum summ say I love sum say I moke	58v
my hart ys set not remove	58v-59r
wan I be thyng my wontyd was	59r
lo in thy hat thow hast be gone	59r
Wyly no dought ye be a wry	59v
To dere is bowght the doblenes	59v
for thylke grownde that bearyth the wedes wycke	59v
to men that knows ye not	60r
Myn vnhappy chaunce / to home shall I playn	60v
Go burnynge siths vnto the frosen hert	61v
ffanecy fframed my hart ffurst	61v-62r
fancy framed my hart ffrust	62r
In places Wher that I company	62v
If that I cowlde in versis close	63v
blame not my lute for he must sownde	64r-v
my hart ys set nat to remowe	65r
I ame not she be prowess off syt	65r
myght I as well within my song be lay	65v
to cowntarffete a mery mode	65v
Myght I as well within my songe	66r
The pleasaunt beayt of swet Delyte Dothe blynd	66r
am el mem	67v
the sueden ghance ded mak me mves	67v
Madame margeret	68r
my ywtheffol days ar past	68r-v
To cause accorde or to agree	69r
All yn the sight my lif doth hole depende	69r
Beholde love thye powre how she despisith	69v
thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none	69v
Theye fle from me that some tyme ded me seke	69v-70r
Ceaser whan the traytor of egipte	70r
yf chaunse assignid	70v
perdye I saide yt not	70v-71r
patiens for my devise	71r
I have sought long with stedfastnesse	71v
Nature that gave the bee so fete agrace	71v
to wishe and wante and not obtaine	71v
Ons me thoght ffortune me kist	71v
Resounde my voyse ye woodes that herithe me plaine	72r
The fruite of all the seruise that I serue	72r
Sins ye delight to kno	72v
Venus thorns that are so sharp and kene	72v
Ineternum I was ons determined	72v
Lyk as the swanne towardis her dethe	73r
Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest	73r
Cruell desire my master and my foo	73r
She sat and sewid that hathe done me the wronge	73r
Who hathe harde of such tyrannye before	73r
Ye know my herte my ladye dere	73v
Sins you will nedes that I shall sing	73v
Ons me thought fortune me kiste	73v-74r
comforte thy self my wofull herte	74r
What dethe is worsse then this	74r
I am not ded altho I had a falle	74r
My hope alas hath me abusid	74v
Me list no more to sing	74v
Nowe fare well love and theye lawes forever	75r
ffor to love her for her lokes lovelye	75r
To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse yt not	75r-v
My herte I gave the not to do yt paine	75v
The Ioye so short alas the paine so nere	75v
Eche man telles me I chaunge of my devise	75v
Payne of all payne the most grevos paine	75v-76r
lament my losse my labor and my payne	76v
what shulde I saye	77r
howe shulde I	77r-v
Gyve place all ye that dothe reioise	77v
Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno	77v
the losse is small to lose suche on	77v
Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde	78r
Grudge on who liste this ys my lott	78v
ffortune dothe frown	78v
A my herte a what eilith the	78v
hate whom ye list for I kare not	78v
Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse	79r-v
Mye love toke skorne my servise to retaine	79v
Tanglid I was yn loves snare	79v-80r
lengre to muse	80r
love doth againe	80v
Wythe seruing still	81r
now all of chaunge	81r-v
Dryven bye desire I dede this dede	81v
I abide and abide and better abide	81v
Absens absenting causithe me to complaine	81v-82r
I finde no peace and all my warre is donne	82r-v
patiens for I have wrong /	82v
whan that I call vnto my mynde	82v-83r
To make an ende of all this strif	83r-v
Wyll ye se / What Wonderous love hathe wrought	84r
Deme as ye list vppon goode cause	84v
I am as I am and so wil I be	85r
My nowne Iohn poyntz . sins ye delight to know	85v-87r
My mothers maides . when they dyd sow or spin	87v
now that ye be assemblled heer	88r
Womans harte vnto no creweltye	89v
ys thys afayre avaunte / ys thys honor	89v
yff all the erthe were parchment scrybable	90r
O marble herte and yet more harde perde	90r
Alas what shuld yt be to yow preiudyce	90r
how frendly was medea to Iason	91r
for thowgh I had yow to morow agayne	91r
yff yt be so that ye so creuel be	91r-v
Wo worthe the fayre gemme vertulesse	91v
for loue ys yet the moste stormy lyfe	91v
Also wyckyd tonges byn so prest	91v
And who that sayth that for to love ys vyce	92r
Stoppe me of my	93r
for who so ends	93r
but now helpe god to quenche all thys sorow	93r
ffortyn ells	93r
Back Matter	94r-96r

Encoded Materials
Introduction to the Encoded Materials · The Devonshire Manuscript in TEI · Textual Witnesses to the Devonshire Manuscript in TEI

Manuscript Facsimile
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