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The Devonshire Manuscript: Reading Gender in the Henrician Court

What is in some accounts Thomas Wyatt’s finest poem, “They Flee From Me,” exists in two distinct versions in the manuscripts in which it first circulated, the Egerton manuscript and the Devonshire manuscript. In modern collections of Wyatt’s poetry and teaching anthologies of Renaissance literature, however, editors often elide this textual diversity, opting to print the version of the poem in the Egerton manuscript because they (plausibly) hold that the Egerton text more accurately reflects Wyatt’s authorial intentions. This version of the poem concludes with the infamous lines, “but syns that I so kyndely ame serued / I would fain know what she hath deserued.” These lines serve as the fulcrum in a common critical mechanism that interprets this poem as a primary example of antifeminist masculine