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Ne were my true innocent heart
A roundel by Charles d’Orléans — fourteen lines
Author(s): Charles d’Orléans
Subjects: roundels; love lyrics; love, vicissitudes of; love, constancy in
Versification: — roundel



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Royal 16 F.II, ff. 131-131v
First Lines:
NE were my trewe innocent hert
How þe hold with her aliauns…
Last Lines:
…WYth her faire femenyn contenauns
Þe shall neuer from her astert
Editions:
Ellis, George, ed. Specimens of the Early English Poets. London: Edwards, 1790; 3 vols, 1801; 5th ed., London: Washburne, 1845; rev. ed., 1 vol., 1863: 1.254.
Bullrich, Georg. über Charles d’Orleans und die ihm zugeschribere englische übersetzung seiher gedichte. Berlin, 1893: 13.
MacCracken, Henry Noble. “An English Friend of Charles d’Orleáns.” PMLA 26 (1911): 142-180: 178-9.
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1927: 223.
Steele, Robert, ed. Charles of Orleans: The English Poems. Vol. 1. EETS o.s. 215 (1941); vol. 2. ed. Robert Steele and Mabel Day, o.s. 220; repr. as one volume, 1970: 225.
Sauerstein, Paul. Charles d’Orléans und died englishce übersetzung seiner dichtungen. Halle: Karras, 1899: 65.