Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2361

DIMEV 2361

IMEV 1414.8

NIMEV TM 721

If I had wit for to indite

‘My hart she hath and euer shall’ — six cross-rhymed quatrains

Note: Composite text ed. Chambers and Sidgwick (1907)

XEdmund Kerchever Chambers, and Frank Sidgwick. Early English Lyrics…. London: Buller, 1907, 1911 et seq

, 57; cf. 2360.

Title(s): ‘My hart she hath and euer shall’

Subjects: love lyrics

Versification: — four-line — abab

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 18752, f. 58v

Editions:

Reed, Ernest Bliss. “The Sixteenth Century Lyrics in Add. MS. 18,752.” Anglia 33 (1909): 344-69: 350-1.

2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 31922, f. 34v

Editions:

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 235, 260.

Flügel, Ewald, ed. Neuenglisches Lesebuch. 1 Bd. Halle: Niemayer, 1895: 134, 138.

Padelford, Frederick Morgan. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics. Boston and London: D.C. Heath, 1907: 78.

Chambers, Edmund Kerchever. The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932, and subsequent editions: 41-2.

Stevens, John, ed. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961: 396.

Stevens, John, ed. Music at the Court of Henry VIII. Musica Britannica 18. London: Stainer and Bell, 1962: 26.

3.Source: London, British Library Royal Appendix 58, f. 5v

First Lines:

[I]ff I hade wytt fore to endyte
off my lady bothe fayre And free
Off hure goodnese then wolde I wrete
schall noman know hure name for me
shall nomane know hure name for me…

Last Lines:

…My hart she hathe & euer shall
tyll by dethe departyd we be
hap what shall hape wylbe fall
shall noman know hure name fore me

Editions:

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 235, 260.

Flügel, Ewald, ed. Neuenglisches Lesebuch. 1 Bd. Halle: Niemayer, 1895: 134, 138.

hinder: adj.¹ and noun.² A. adj.¹ 1. Situated behind, at the back, or in the rear; posterior. (Notwithstanding its comparative form, it does not differ in sense from hind, but is more frequently used. Cf. YON adv., YONDER adv., adj., pron., and n.) hinder gate, postern gate. 2. Of time. a. Last past, ‘last’; as in this hinder day yesterday, this hinder night last night, yesternight. OED

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

weir: noun 1. Warfare. a. A state or period of hostilities and combat existing between political groups, esp. realms or nations; also, specif. the warlike activity appropriate to knights, and also sometimes applied to the skills involved (see (3) below and cf. some quots. in 2 (1)). b. Hostilities, strife, etc. between (groups of) individuals pursuing private enmities. Dictionary of the Scots Language