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For love is love and ever shall be
John Audelay, ‘De amore dei’, a carol — five 5-line stanzas (ababb) with refrain, ‘I say herefore’ and burden: ‘I haue a loue is heuen kyng / I loue his loue fore euermor’
Author(s): John Audelay
Title(s): De amore dei
Subjects: God, love of; carols, to Christ
Versification: — five-line, two-line — ababb



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 302 (SC 21876), f. 30va-30vb
First Lines:
ffore loue is loue & euer schal be
& loue has bene ore we were bore…
Last Lines:
…With is loue trew loue is non
I say here fore
Attributed Title: De Amore dei (f. 30va)
Editions:
Chambers, Edmund Kerchever, and Frank Sidgwick. “Fifteenth Century Carols by John Audelay, II.” Modern Language Review 6 (1911): 68-84: 79.
Whiting, Ella Keats, ed. John Audelay: The Poems. EETS o.s. 184 (1931); repr. 1988: 210.
Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 193-4; 1977, 170-1.
Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 390-1.