Devotion to his mistress — one 8-line stanza (with music) signed
‘Walterus ffry’
Note: Lines 5-8 same as lines 9-12 of
2253.
Author(s): Walter Fry
Subjects: lovers, addresses to beloved; lovers, faithful
Versification: —
eight-line
1.Source: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library 91 [Mellon chansonnier], ff. 61
v-63
First Lines:So ys emprentid in my remembrance
Iour grodly port your frenly
continance
your wommanhede Iour þowght
Your prysid byaulte with
Iour…
Last Lines:…ort heuenesse myn hert ys with yow go go
wey þat ye
go
Contratenor
Tenor That þat lordi all wot
Note: Not Beinecke Library 9 as listed in
Brown and Robbins (1943)
XCarleton Fairchild Brown, and Rossell Hope Robbins.
The Index of Middle English Verse.
New York: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press,
1943
.
Attributed Author: Walterus ffry (f. 61v)
Editions:
Menner, Robert J.
“Three Fragmentary English Ballades in the Mellon Chansonnier.”
Modern Language Quarterly
6 (1945): 381-7: 382.
Kenney, Sylvia W.
“Contrafacta in the Works of Walter Frye.”
Journal of the American Musicological Society
8 (1955): 182-202: 201-2.