Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4014

DIMEV 4014

IMEV 2531.5

NIMEV TM 1218

O my heart and O my heart

‘My hart it is so sore’, attributed to Henry VIII — one quatrain

Author(s): Henry VIII (attrib.)

Title(s): ‘My hart it is so sore’

Subjects: lover’s lament

Versification: — four-line — abab

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 31922, f. 22v

Editions:

Chappell, William. “Some Account of an Unpublished Collection of Songs and Ballads by King Henry VIII and his Contemporaries.” Archaeologia 41 (1867): 371-86: 374.

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 232.

Trefusis, Mary. Songs, Ballads, and Instrumental Pieces composed by King Henry the Eighth. Roxburghe Club 161. Oxford, 1912: 9.

Stevens, John, ed. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961: 390.

Stevens, John, ed. Music at the Court of Henry VIII. Musica Britannica 18. London: Stainer and Bell, 1962: 17.

2.Source: San Marino, CA, Huntington Library Poem added in fifteenth-century hand to Huntington copy of Jacobus, de Voragine, Here begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende…, [Westminster: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1493 (20 May)] , sig. gg.4v

Transcription:

O my hart and O my hart
my hart that ys so sore
sytt thatt I most frome my loue depart
& know no cause where ffore

Note: Added by a hand of c. 1500; immediately followed by 6551.

Editions:

Chappell, William. “Some Account of an Unpublished Collection of Songs and Ballads by King Henry VIII and his Contemporaries.” Archaeologia 41 (1867): 371-86: 374.

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 232.

Trefusis, Mary. Songs, Ballads, and Instrumental Pieces composed by King Henry the Eighth. Roxburghe Club 161. Oxford, 1912: 9.

Stevens, John, ed. Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961: 390.

Stevens, John, ed. Music at the Court of Henry VIII. Musica Britannica 18. London: Stainer and Bell, 1962: 17.

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