After reading both Tottel’s Miscellany and The Devonshire Manuscript I found a major difference between both. In the Devonshire Manuscript I found that copying the original text preserved the text. Finding information through the text is easier because there is links that are presented in order for a person to seek what they are looking for rather than, skipping through an entire book. As for Tottels’s Miscellany was the first printed anthology of English poetry in 1557. This book was considered to be contextualized because it brought poems of the aristocracy to readers. I think a old school person would have prefer the Tottel’s Miscellany rather than the Devonshire Manuscript. And someone that was born during the digital world would most likely prefer the Devonshire Manuscript rather than the Tottel’s Miscellany.

Social Editon of the Devonshire Manuscript is that it was able to preserve the text by merging together mediated textual and extra-textual elements of the manuscript. The paratexts also made a huge significance, because it helps readers to understand what they are reading. These paratext is made up of annotations, glosses, names, ciphers, and various jottings. The main reason why I feel this site was created because it was able to preserve the book, plus it free to anyone that has access to a computer. My experience navigating through the website was I found it to be pretty easy. However, the way how the website was formatted it had initially remind me of Wikipedia. Also, I felt that too much information was presented on the site, it was a bit confusing at first.

The poem that stucked the most was “The aged lover renounced love”. The part that stood out the mist for me was:

I loathe that I did love,

In youth that I thought sweet,

As time requires for my behove,

Methinks they are not meet.

My lusts they do me leave,

My fancies all be fled,

And tract of time begins to weave

Grey hairs upon my head,

The reason was because for me I think it means that’s a young person is upset that an older person is taking away there love. The theme that was reflected by Tottel reflects the title. From what I understand from the title, is the older person is taking away there love while, in the poem the younger person hate the way how the older person can take away there love, which is why the younger person hate that that they had fall in love with that person. Also, the younger person thought that being young had its benefit however; the person belief changed quickly when the older person took away their love. Soon quickly the younger person has so much stress because of the relationship that he or she start to see grey hairs. The relationships seem to have ended so suddenly, to the point that the person lost tract of time. This poem reminds me of myself, when I was in a relationship with an older person, the only deference was that I had predicted the relationship was not going to last long.