The Devonshire Manuscript/thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none

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1    thou haste no faith of him that eke hath none 2    {es} {{th}+u+} but thou must love him nedes bye good reason 3    for as the pro {p2} verbe saith right notable 4    everye thin k sekith his semblable / 5    {_on} {_o} {{th}+u+} and thou hast thyne of thy owne condicion 6    yet ys yt not the thing I passe vppon 7    nother hot nor colde is my affection 8    for sins thi hert is this so mutable / 9    thou haste no faith /

10    I demid the trwe with {w+t+} out exception 11    but I perceyve I lacked dastrestion discretion 12    to fasten faith to wordes {es} so dobtable 13    thye thought is to light and variable / 14    to chaunge so oft without occasion occacoion {_i} {w+t+} 15    thou hast no faith

Commentary
Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, this poem was entered by H8. The speaker complains of his love's fickleness, which was a common theme in medieval and early Tudor courtly love poetry. Wyatt adopts the French rondeau structure for his poem, a form which consists of thirteen lines, two stanzas of four lines, five lines in the last stanza, and a refrain that appears after each stanza. In this particular rondeau, Wyatt omits the refrain after the first stanza.

The two refrains following are aligned to the right.

Texts Collated
LEge41

Collation
1     thou] Thou LEge41     haste] hast LEge41     eke]  LEge41 2     bye good] by LEge41 3     the proverbe saith right] saieth a proverbe LEge41 4     everye thinkg] eche thing LEge41     sekith] seketh LEge41     semblable /] semblable LEge41 5     thyne] thyn LEge41     owne condicion] conditions LEge41 6     ys yt] is it LEge41     vppon] on LEge41 7     nother] nor LEge41     hot] hote LEge41     colde] cold LEge41     is my] ofis myn LEge41 8     sins] syns LEge41     thi] thyn LEge41     this]  LEge41     mutable /] mutable LEge41 9     haste] hast LEge41     faith /] faith LEge41 10     demid] thought LEge41     trwe] true / LEge41     without] withoute LEge41 11     perceyve] perceve LEge41     dastrestiondiscretion] discretion LEge41 12     fasten] fasshion LEge41     so doblable] mutable LEge41 13     thye] thy LEge41     and variable /] &amp; variable LEge41 14     without] withoute LEge41     occacion] occasion LEge41 15     thou] Thou LEge41