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 &amp; 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
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.