Syns so ye please to here me playn

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    The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 53r

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    1    Syns so ye please to here me playn
    2    & that ye do reioyce my smart
    3    me lyst no longer to Remayn
    4    to suche as be so overthwart

    5    but cursyd be that cruell hart
    6    & whyche hathe pro{p2}curyd a careles mynd
    7    ffor me & myn vnfaynyd smart
    8    & forcythe me suche fautes to fynd

    9    more than to muche I am assuryd
    10    of thyn entent wherto to trust
    11    A spedles proffe I haue enduryd
    12    & now I leue yt to them that lust

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    Commentary

    Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,[1] this poem was entered by H6. The speaker resolves to turn away from the lady, whose cruel heart has rejected him and rejoiced at his pain. In his study of Wyatt's lyrics, Winifred Maynard notes that this poem's ability to be sung to the tune of "fforget not yet the tryde entent" (54v) testifies to Wyatt's competence at writing quatrains.[2]

    Works Cited

    1. ↑ R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 229.
    2. ↑ Winifred Maynard. "The Lyrics of Wyatt: Poems or Songs?" The Review of English Studies 16.61 (1965): 4.