Talk:The Devonshire Manuscript/It was my choyse It Was my chaunce

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Context
The commentary for this poem would benefit from further description and critical context. See, for example, Winifred Maynard. "The Lyrics of Wyatt: Poems or Songs?" The Review of English Studies 16.61 (1965): 1-13, DL Guss. "Wyatt's Petrarchism: An Instance of Creative Imitation in the Renaissance." Huntington Library Quarterly 29.1 (1965): 1-15, and Donald M. Friedman. "Wyatt and the Ambiguities of Fancy." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67.1 (1968): 32-48. Cultures4 (discuss • contribs) 18:35, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Supralinear 'en' in line 12?
Could the scribe have intended to write the 'en' as supralinear, thus denoting the abbreviation for 'then'?

"may more prevayll yenryght ore myght"

Cultures33 (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Possible scribal code?
If one assumes that the scribe uses an abbreviation sign in the words "powre," "lowre," "or," and "more" that consists of a raised hook following an n ({n'}=ne in the RET codes), does this preclude that a code was created ({r'}) to indicate an omitted e?

i.e. line 13: "yf fortune then lyst for to lowre"

Cultures33 (discuss • contribs) 17:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)