The Devonshire Manuscript/Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede

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1  Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede s1 2    yor lovyng Iyes cane {n'} not hide 3    at last the trwthe will sure be tryde
 * therefore take hede

4    for Som ther be of crafite Kynde 5    thowe yow shew no parte of yor mynde 6    sewrlye there Ies ye can te not nott blynde
 * therefore take hede
 * for in lyke case there sselv of dyveris skools

7    ffor in lyke case ther selves ha hathe bene 8    &amp; thoʒt thought ryght sure none had theym sene 9    but it was not as thye did wene2
 * therefore take hede

10    all thowgth theye be of dyvers skoolles {es} 11 {es} use  &amp; will can yose all craftye toolles 12    at leynthe thye prove them selfs bott fooll
 * therefor take

13    yff theye myght take yow in that trape 14    theye wolde sone leve yet in yor lape 15    to love vnspyed ys but a happe
 * therefore th take hed

TTh W3

Notes & Glosses
1.   The shape of the "s" mark suggests that it was made by Margaret Douglas.

2.   "Wene" means to think, surmise, or consider.

3.   Th W: This is a designation, perhaps of authorship, by an unidentified hand.

Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poem was entered by H1 and is unique to this manuscript. An adaption of this poem appears as a ballad in a later Elizabethan manuscript, British Library Harley MS 7578 (fol. 116v), entitled "Tak hede by tym whiles youth doth Rayn." John Milsom suggests that this adaptation is a moralization of Wyatt's poem.