The Devonshire Manuscript

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Contents

  1. The Devonshire Manuscript
  2. Note on the Edition
  3. Introduction: The First Sustained Example of Men and Women Writing Together in the English Tradition
  4. Contributors to the Devonshire Manuscript
  5. Genealogical Tables
  6. Family and Affairs of Henry VIII
  7. The Howard Family
  8. The Boleyn Family
  9. Connections of the Boleyn, Knyvet, Shelton, and Howard Families
  10. Textual and Bibliographic Materials
  11. Manuscripts & Early Printed Books Associated with the Devonshire Manuscript
  12. Witness Descriptions, Manuscript
  13. Witness Descriptions, Early Printed Books
  14. Items in the Devonshire Manuscript Without Witnesses
  15. Attribution, in Order of Appearance
  16. Features
  17. Hand 1
  18. Hand 7
  19. Hand 13
  20. Hand 1.1
  21. Hand 7.1
  22. Hand MS
  23. Hand 2
  24. Hand 8
  25. Hand MD
  26. Hand 3
  27. Hand 9
  28. Hand MF
  29. Hand 4
  30. Hand 10
  31. Hand TH1
  32. Hand 5
  33. Hand 11
  34. Hand TH2
  35. Hand 6
  36. Hand 12
  37. Hand HS
  38. Witnesses
  39. Bibliography A-M
  40. Bibliography N-Z
  41. O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaynge
  42. My harte I gave the not to do it paine
  43. My pen take payn a lytyll space
  44. At last withdrawe yowre cruellte
  45. To wette yowr Iye withouten teare
  46. I lowe lovyd and so doithe she
  47. Suffryng in sorow in hope to attayn
  48. My ferefull hope from me ys fledd
  49. Yowre ferefull hope cannot prevayle
  50. Bownd am I now & shall be styll
  51. Farewell all my wellfare
  52. May not thys hate from the estarte
  53. Yff I had sufferd thys to yow vnware
  54. The hart & servys to yow profferd
  55. At most myscheffe
  56. What menythe thys when I lye alone
  57. Pacyence tho I have not
  58. ys yt possyble
  59. My lute awake performe the last labor
  60. Alas poore man what hap have I
  61. Marvell nomore Altho
  62. And wylt thow leve me thus
  63. That tyme that myrthe dyd stere my shypp
  64. The restfull place Revyver of my smarte
  65. All women have vertues noble & excelent
  66. What no perde ye may be sure
  67. Was neuer yet fyle half so well fylyd
  68. As power & wytt wyll me Assyst
  69. Sum tyme I syghe sumtyme I syng
  70. Pacyence of all my smart
  71. Who wold haue euer thowght
  72. In faythe methynkes yt ys no Ryght
  73. The knot which fyrst my hart dyd strayn
  74. He Robyn gentyll robyn
  75. A wel I hawe at other lost
  76. The knot which fyrst my hart did strayn
  77. Hey Robyn Ioly Robyn tell me
  78. It was my choyse It Was my chaunce
  79. Now may I morne as one off late
  80. Wyth sorowful syghes and wondes smart
  81. What thyng shold cawse me to be sad
  82. Alas that men be so vngent
  83. Who hath more cawse for to complayne
  84. I may well say with Ioyfull harte
  85. To yowr gentyll letters an answere to resyte
  86. And now my pen alas wyth wyche I wryte
  87. O very lord / o loue / o god alas
  88. O ye louers that hygh vpon the whele
  89. It was my choyse yt was no chaunce /
  90. Suche Wayn thowght / as wonted to myslede me /
  91. So vnwarely was never no man cawght /
  92. The knott whych ffyrst my hart dyd strayn /
  93. Yff fansy wuld favour
  94. The Wandryng gadlyng in the somer tyde /
  95. The lyvely sparkes that yssue frome those Iies /
  96. Tho I can not yowr cruelte constrayne /
  97. Somtyme I fled the fyre that me brent /
  98. What deth ys worse then thys /
  99. thy promese was to loue me best
  100. I se the change ffrom that that was
  101. ther ys no cure ffor care off miyd
  102. as ffor my part I know no thyng
  103. to my meshap alas I ffynd
  104. how shold I
  105. what nedythe lyff when I requyer
  106. and thys be thys ye may
  107. Too yoye In payne my will
  108. Yff reason govern fantasye
  109. What helpythe hope of happy hape
  110. This rotyd greff will not but growe
  111. Hartte aprest with dessperott thoughtes
  112. So feble is the therd that dothe the burden staye
  113. ffull well yt maye be sene
  114. Syns loue ys suche that as ye wott
  115. Lo how I seke & sew to haue
  116. My loue ys lyke vnto theternall fyre
  117. Syns so ye please to here me playn
  118. Yf in the worlde there be more woo
  119. Now must I lerne to lyue at rest
  120. fforget not yet the tryde entent
  121. o happy dames that may enbrayes
  122. My hope is yow for to obtaine,
  123. when I bethynk my wontet ways
  124. O myserable sorow withowten cure
  125. Sum summ say I love sum say I moke
  126. my hart ys set not remove
  127. wan I be thyng my wontyd was
  128. lo in thy hat thow hast be gone
  129. Wyly no dought ye be a wry
  130. To dere is bowght the doblenes
  131. for thylke grownde that bearyth the wedes wycke
  132. to men that knows ye not
  133. Myn vnhappy chaunce / to home shall I playn
  134. Go burnynge siths vnto the frosen hert
  135. ffanecy fframed my hart ffurst
  136. fancy framed my hart ffrust
  137. In places Wher that I company
  138. If that I cowlde in versis close
  139. blame not my lute for he must sownde
  140. my hart ys set nat to remowe
  141. I ame not she be prowess off syt
  142. myght I as well within my song be lay
  143. to cowntarffete a mery mode
  144. Myght I as well within my songe
  145. The pleasaunt beayt of swet Delyte Dothe blynd
  146. am el mem
  147. the sueden ghance ded mak me mves
  148. Madame margeret
  149. my ywtheffol days ar past
  150. To cause accorde or to agree
  151. All yn the sight my lif doth hole depende
  152. Beholde love thye powre how she despisith
  153. thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none
  154. Theye fle from me that some tyme ded me seke
  155. Ceaser whan the traytor of egipte
  156. yf chaunse assignid
  157. perdye I saide yt not
  158. patiens for my devise
  159. I have sought long with stedfastnesse
  160. Nature that gave the bee so fete agrace
  161. to wishe and wante and not obtaine
  162. Ons me thoght ffortune me kist
  163. Resounde my voyse ye woodes that herithe me plaine
  164. The fruite of all the seruise that I serue
  165. Sins ye delight to kno
  166. Venus thorns that are so sharp and kene
  167. Ineternum I was ons determined
  168. Lyk as the swanne towardis her dethe
  169. Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest
  170. Cruell desire my master and my foo
  171. She sat and sewid that hathe done me the wronge
  172. Who hathe harde of such tyrannye before
  173. Ye know my herte my ladye dere
  174. Sins you will nedes that I shall sing
  175. Ons me thought fortune me kiste
  176. comforte thy self my wofull herte
  177. What dethe is worsse then this
  178. I am not ded altho I had a falle
  179. My hope alas hath me abusid
  180. Me list no more to sing
  181. Nowe fare well love and theye lawes forever
  182. ffor to love her for her lokes lovelye
  183. To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse yt not
  184. My herte I gave the not to do yt paine
  185. The Ioye so short alas the paine so nere
  186. Eche man telles me I chaunge of my devise
  187. Payne of all payne the most grevos paine
  188. lament my losse my labor and my payne
  189. what shulde I saye
  190. howe shulde I
  191. Gyve place all ye that dothe reioise
  192. Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno
  193. the losse is small to lose suche on
  194. Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde
  195. Grudge on who liste this ys my lott
  196. ffortune dothe frown
  197. A my herte a what eilith the
  198. hate whom ye list for I kare not
  199. Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse
  200. Mye love toke skorne my servise to retaine
  201. Tanglid I was yn loves snare
  202. lengre to muse
  203. love doth againe
  204. Wythe seruing still
  205. now all of chaunge
  206. Dryven bye desire I dede this dede
  207. I abide and abide and better abide
  208. Absens absenting causithe me to complaine
  209. I finde no peace and all my warre is donne
  210. patiens for I have wrong /
  211. whan that I call vnto my mynde
  212. To make an ende of all this strif
  213. Wyll ye se / What Wonderous love hathe wrought
  214. Deme as ye list vppon goode cause
  215. I am as I am and so wil I be
  216. My nowne Iohn poyntz . sins ye delight to know
  217. My mothers maides . when they dyd sow or spin
  218. now that ye be assemblled heer
  219. Womans harte vnto no creweltye
  220. ys thys afayre avaunte / ys thys honor
  221. yff all the erthe were parchment scrybable
  222. O marble herte and yet more harde perde
  223. Alas what shuld yt be to yow preiudyce
  224. how frendly was medea to Iason
  225. for thowgh I had yow to morow agayne
  226. yff yt be so that ye so creuel be
  227. Wo worthe the fayre gemme vertulesse
  228. for loue ys yet the moste stormy lyfe
  229. Also wyckyd tonges byn so prest
  230. And who that sayth that for to love ys vyce
  231. Stoppe me of my
  232. for who so ends
  233. but now helpe god to quenche all thys sorow
  234. ffortyn ells
  235. Back Matter
  236. Introduction to the Encoded Materials