An aureate love letter to his sweet mistress — twenty-four stanzas rhyme
royal
Note: Stanzas extracted from Hawes,
Pastime of Pleasure (
6391) and one stanza (lines 148-54) from Hawes,
Comfort
of Lovers (
5294); see
Jansen and Jordan (1991)
XSharon L. Jansen, and Kathleen H. Jordan.
The Welles Anthology: MS. Rawlinson C.813: A Critical Edition.
Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies,
1991
, 300-301.
Subjects: lovers, addresses to beloved
Versification: —
seven-line —
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1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.813 (SC 12653) [Welles Anthology], ff. 14
v-18
First Lines:O my lady dere bothe regarde and See
my harte vppon yow Soo Sore ytt
ys sett…
Last Lines:…cummandyng hym as fast as he myght
To my swete lady to take
ytt full ryght
Note: After end, ‘Si troue Soit hony Soit qui mal y pense (f.
18).
Editions:
Padelford, Frederick Morgan.
“Liedersammlungen des xvi. Jahrhunderts…IV.”
Anglia
31 (1908): 309-96: 318-23.
Jansen, Sharon L., and Kathleen H. Jordan, eds.
The Welles Anthology: MS. Rawlinson C.813: A Critical Edition.
Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies,
1991: 117-24.