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DIMEV 2217
IMEV 1328.5
NIMEV TM 662
I love loved and loved would I be
The faithful lover — one stanza rhyme royal
Note: Cf. Muir (1950), no. 106 [Wyatt].
Subjects: lovers, faithful
Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 5465 [the Fairfax manuscript], ff. 28v-30
First Lines:
I love loved & loved wolde I be
In stedfast fayth & trouth with assuraunce…
Last Lines:
…yet will I me trust to fortune applye
hough þat evyr it will happ I wote nere I
Attributed Author: Fayrfax, Robert (music)
Editions:
Smith, John Stafford. A Collection of English Songs, composed about the year 1500. London: Bland, 1779: 12.
Pearce, Charles William. A Collection of Songs and Madrigals by English Composers of the close of the 15th Century. Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. London: Quaritch, 1891: [M] 23-6.
Fehr, Bernhard. “Die Lieder des Fairfax MS (Add. 5465 Brit. Mus.).” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 106 (1901): 48-70: 56-7.
Stevens, John, ed. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961: 360.