Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 172

DIMEV 172

IMEV 14.5

A the sighs that come from my heart

Recollections of love’s joys — four quatrains

Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)

XRingler Jr., William A. Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript 1501-1558. London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringler

, TM 86.

Subjects: love lyrics

Versification: — four-line

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 31922, ff. 32v-33

Editions:

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 235.

Chapell, William. Popular Music of the Olden Time; a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England. 2 vols. London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell, 1853,1859; rev. H. Ellis Wooldridge, Old English Popular Music 2 vols. London: Chappell & Co. 1893: 1.35-6.

Flügel, Ewald, ed. Neuenglisches Lesebuch. 1 Bd. Halle: Niemayer, 1895: 134.

Stevens, John, ed. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961: 395.

2.Source: London, British Library Royal Appendix 58, f. 3

First Lines:

A the sighes come fro my hert
they greue me passynge sore
Syth I must fro my loue de part
ffare well my Ioye fore euermore…

Last Lines:

…As my thynke that I se hur yete
As wolde to gode that I myght
There ne myght no Ioyues compare h[?]
Vnto my hart to make hyt lyght

Editions:

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 258.

Stevens, John, ed. Music at the Court of Henry VIII. Musica Britannica 18. London: Stainer and Bell, 1962: 25.

Smith, John Stafford. Musica Antiqua: a Selection of Music …. London: Preston, 1812: 1.27.

Padelford, Frederick Morgan. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics. Boston and London: D.C. Heath, 1907: 79.

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: xvii, 10.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED