Al Nist by the Rose

Anonymous, (1100 - 2010)

Original Text

Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.913. Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952): no. 17, p. 12. PR 1203 S4 1952 Trinity College Library.

1Al nist by the rose, rose,

2Al nist bi the rose I lay.

3Darf Ich noust the rose stele

4Ant yet Ich bar the flour away.

Notes

1] nist: night. Back to Line

3] Darf: durst, dared. Ich: I. noust: not. Back to Line

4] Ant: and. bar the flour away: "deflower" (have its virginity). Back to Line

Publication Start Year

1907

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

2002

Rhyme

abcb