The Devonshire Manuscript/What helpythe hope of happy hape
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1 What helpythe hope of happy hape
2 when hap will hap vnhappyly
3 what helpythe hope to fle the trape
4 which hape doth set malycyowsly
5 my hope and hape hap con{_o}trary
6 For as my hope for right doth long
7 So dothe my hap Awarde{d,} me wrong
8 And thus my hape my hope hath turnd
9 Clere owte of hope in to dispayre
10 fore thowgh[t] I burne and long have burnde
11 In fyry love of one most fayere
12 wher love for love shuld kepe the chayre1
13 ther my myshap ys over prest
14 to sett disdayne for my vnrest
15 She knowth my love of long tym ment
16 She knowith my trewth nothing ys hide
17 she knowith I loue in good intent
18 As euer man A woman dide
19 yett love for love in vayn askeyde
20 what clowde hath browght this thunderclape
21 shall I blam here nay I blame happ
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22 For wher as hape list to Arisse
23 I So bothe other she & other cane
24 for lytyll love moch love devyse
25 And somtyme hape doth love so skan
26 Some one to leve here faythfull man
27 Whome sayvyng bondshyp nowght doth crave
28 For hym she owght nor can not have
29 How beyt that hap makyth you so doo
30 So say I not nor other wisse
31 But what such happs by hap hap too
32 hap dayly showith in excersyce
33 As power will serve I youe advisse
34 to fle such hape for hap that growith
35 And pardon me your man tom trowght
36 Some tak no care wher they haue cure
37 Some ^haue no cure and yett tak care
38 and so do I swett hart be sure
39 my love most care for your welfare
40 I love ^youe more then I declare
41 But as for hap happyng this yll
42 hap shall I hate hape what hap will
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Notes & Glosses
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Commentary
[edit | edit source]Written in TH1's hand, this poem remains unattributed and is unique to this manuscript. This poem might be a response to Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem “Hap hath happed” which is not found in this manuscript: the speaker, describing his unreturned love, finds the lady blameless and instead accuses Fortune of his unrewarded outcome. The poem seems carefully corrected throughout the page.