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DIMEV 5726
IMEV 3623.5
NIMEV TP 1910
This lady clear
Man’s soul as his true love — three six-line tail-rhyme stanzas with a secular burden: ‘Who shall haue my fayr lady / who but I who but I who / who shall haue my fayr lady / who hath more ryght therto’
Note: Refrain same as that for 6563.
Subjects: love, divine and human; devotional verse; songs; Jons, R.
Versification: — six-line — aabccb


Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 22924. XX Songes, Impryntyd in London at the signe of the Black Mores, 1530 , item 8
First Lines:
This lady clere
that I sheu here
mans soul yt ys trust me…
Last Lines:
…than only dy therfore
lady for thy loue
Note: Signed at end as by ‘R Jons’.
Editions:
Imelmann, Rudolf. “Zur Kenntnis der vor-Shakespeare’schen Lyrik: I. Wynkyn de Wordes ‘Song Book,’ 1530; II. John Dayes Sammlung der Lieder Thomas Whythornes, 1571.” Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesselschaft 39 (1903): 121-78: 129-30.
Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Besonders aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII.” Anglia 12 (1889): 225-72, 585-97: 592.
Flügel, Ewald, ed. Neuenglisches Lesebuch. 1 Bd. Halle: Niemayer, 1895: 127.