Humfrey Newton, On his mistress — one stanza rhyme royal (with acrostic
Hvmfrey)
Author(s): Humfrey Newton
Subjects: acrostics; love lyrics
Versification: —
seven-line —
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2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. misc. c.66 [olim Capesthorne], f. 95
First Lines:Hert be trowe & trulof kepe
Mi trulof will I neuer forsake
h
her hert I wold I had I wis
v vnto the tyme I gaf it
agayn…
Last Lines:…e euer by the grace as that I go y þerfore my swete & my
swetyng
y yee at wold idle any man there y pray you remembre me in youre
slepyng
Note: Second occurrence in MS; crossed out; revision of penultimate and last
line, with revision written interlineally (here at ends of lines).
Editions: Robbins, Rossell Hope.
“The Poems of Humphrey Newton, Esquire, 1466-1536.”
PMLA
65 (1950): 249-81: 263 (note).