Her I was and Her I Drank

Her I was and Her I Drank

Original Text
Trinity College Dublin MS 214, fol. 1r; Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952): no. 12, p. 9. PR 1203 S4 1952 Trinity College Library. Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, eds., The Index of Middle English Verse (New York, 1943): no. 1201. Z 2012 B86 General Reference Robarts Library.
1Her I was and her I drank.
2Far wyll dam and mykyll thank!
3Her I was and had gud cher,
4And her I drank wyll gud ber.

Notes

2] Far wyll: farewell.dam: dame, lady. Back to Line
3] gud cher: good cheer. Back to Line
4] ber: beer. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1952
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
Rhyme
aabb