# The Devonshire Manuscript/Grudge on who liste this ys my lott

* ←Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde || width="200" align="right" | ffortune dothe frown→
* The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 78v
f. [78v] 1 Grudge on who liste this ys my lott 2 no thing to want if it ware not 3 my yeris be yong even as ye see 4 all thinges{es} thereto dothe well agre 5 yn faithe in face in iche degre 6 no thing dothe wante as semithe me 7 if yt ware not 8 {es}[[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]] {_e} Some men dothe saye that frindes be skace 9 but I have founde as in this cace 10 afrinde wiche gyvith to no man{_a}$^1$ place 11 {u'}[[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]] but makis me happiest that euer was 12 yf &c 13 Groudge on who list this is my lot 14 no thing to wan{_a}t if yt ware not 15 a hart I have besidis all this 16 that hathe my herte & I have his 17 if he dothe well yt is my blis 18 and when we mete no lak there is / 19 yf & c 20 {_a}[[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]] {_a} Yf he can finde that can me please 21 athinckes{es} he dois his owne hertes{es} ease 22 and likewise I coulde well apease 23 the chefest cause of his misease 24 yf &c 25 Groudge on &c 26 nothing to wan{_a}te &c 27 A master{t'} eke god hathe me sente 28 to hom my will is hollye ben{_e}te 29 {_e}[[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+t+}]] [[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{s}8}]] to serue & love for that intente 30 both we {_e} {_o} that bothe/we$^2$ might be well contente / 31 yf c 32 And here an ende yt dothe suffise 33 [[The Devonshire Manuscript/Appendix_I:_Paleographic_Features|{{th}+e+}]]{es} to speke fewe wordes among the wise / 34 yet take this note before yo$^r$ eyes 35 my mirthe shulde doble ons or twise / 36 yf yt ware not Groudge on who liste &c / fs

## Notes & Glosses

1. See Petti. This form of macron is an ornamental variant.
 2. The division line between the words may have been a retroactive addition/clarification, since there is no space between the words.

## Commentary

Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, this poem was entered by H8. Rebholz notes that this poem could be considered a modified carol since the "burden" appears as a refrain. Other versions of this poem are titled "My yeris be yong even as ye see.” Wyatt rarely employs a female speaker in his poetry; this particular female speaker expresses a similar sentiment of acceptance of fate as in the previous poem, “Spight hathe no powre to make me sadde” (77r). An interpretation of the poem as politicized verse depends on the meaning of “it” in the burden, “if it were not.” “Grudge not” was also one of Anne Boleyn’s early mottoes, which she had taken from the Burgundian court. A few other traces of Anne Boleyn's mottoes appear in the manuscript: “Ye know my herte my ladye dere” (73v) contains Boleyn’s motto, “Me and Myne,” and the anagram “Am el mem” (67v) is possibly a reply by Anne Boleyn to Wyatt’s riddle “What word is that that changeth not though it be turned.”

#### Works Cited

* ↑ Anthony G. Petti. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977. 22.
* ↑ R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 275-76.
* ↑ ibid., 523.
* ↑ ibid., 436.