1.Source: Oxford, Balliol College 316B, f. 114
First Lines:Alas poor man what chans havy
þat must for bar whom y love
best
y trow yt be my desteny…
Last Lines:…Soo wold yow say in yowr good harte
yff that suches payns yow
ded in dewr
Note: Added to flyleaf at end by a later hand of the fifteenth or sixteenth
centuries; followed by another line of English, ‘Trv lool[?] vetew &
tru loue kyepe…’, possibly beginning of a third stanza.
Editions: Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville,
ed.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in Balliol College Library.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1962: 334.