The Devonshire Manuscript, am el mem

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The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 67v (Image: DMSEG, CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 66v (Image: DMSEG, CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 67r (Image: DMSEG, CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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f. [66v]
f. [67r]
f. [67v]

1    am el mem
2    anem e
3    as I haue dese
4    I am yowrs an1

Notes & Glosses

1. This phrase might refer to Anne Boleyn.

Commentary

Entered by TH2, this anagram is possibly a reply by Anne Boleyn to Wyatt’s “What word is that that changeth not though it be turned,” – the answer is ANNA. Thus, the first and fourth letters of the first two lines must be interchanged to decipher the anagram, which reads, “a lemmen, amene, ah I save dese, I ama yours, an.” This anagram might suggest allegiances between various members of the manuscript’s coterie and those on the periphery. Anne Boleyn’s mottos are mentioned in some verses: H8’s transcription of Wyatt’s poem “Ye know my herte my ladye dere” (73v) contains Boleyn’s motto “Me and Myne,”1] and [“Grudge on who liste this ys my lott” (78v) also contains an earlier motto of Boleyn’s from her time at the Burgundian court.

Works Cited

• ↑ R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 436.

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