CONTENTS
POEMS PECULIAR TO THE DEVONSHIRE MS. PART I
1. Take hede be tyme lest ye be spyde .
2. My pen, take payn a lyttyll space
3. I love lovyd and so dothe she
4. Suffryng in sorow in hope to attayn .
5. At last withdrawe your crueltie .
6. To wette your lye withouten teare
7. What menythe thys, when I lye alone
8. The hart and servys to yow prolferd .
9. Farewell all my welfare
10. Alas poore man what hap have I
11. Ys yt possyble
12. And wylt thow leve me thus
13. That tyme that myrthe dyd stere my shypp
14. As power and wytt wyll me assyst
15. Sumtyme I syght, sumtyme I syng
16. Pacyence of all my smart .
17. In fay the methynkes yt ys no ryght .
18. The knot which fyrst my hert did strayn
19. It was ray choyse it was no chance
20. So unwarely was never no man cawght
21. Howshuldl
22. Full well yt maye be sene .
23. Syns love ys suche, that as ye wott
24. Lo how I seke and sew to have .
25. Syns so ye please to here me playn
26. Now must I lerne to lyve at rest
27. Fforget not yet the tryde enteut .
28. 0 myserable sorow withowten cure
29. Blame not my lute for he must sound .
PART II
1. If with complaint the paine myght be exprest
2. Sins you will nedes that I shall sing .
3. What shulde I saye ....
4. Gyve place all ye that doth rejoyse
5. Me list no more to sing
6. The Joye so short alas, the paine so nere
7.[1] Payne of all payne most grevous paine
8.[1] Lament my losse, my labor, and my payne
9. Spight hath no power to make me sadde
10. A ! my herte, a ! what aileth the
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