My Lefe ys Faren in a Lond
My Lefe ys Faren in a Lond
Original Text
Trinity College Cambridge MS 599, fol. 154r.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the
XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1952): no. 160, p. 152. PR 1203 S4 1952 Trinity College
Library. Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins
The Index of Middle English Verse
(New York, 1943): no. 2254.
Z 2012 B86 General Reference Robarts Library.
2 Allas, why ys she so?
3And I am so sore bound
4 I may nat com her to.
5She hath my hert in hold
6 Where euer she ryde or go,
7With trew love a thousand fold.
Notes
1] The introductory words precede this poem in the original manuscript.
lefe: love. faren in a lond: gone abroad. Back to Line
lefe: love. faren in a lond: gone abroad. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1896
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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