The Lyrics of Henry VIII/Adew mes amours et mon desyre, Cornish

[ff. 15v-17r]

Adew mes amours et mon desyre ie vous de prannce depertamant et sy ie vous a fayt de plesure sy na passaunce commandamant

Pardon amoy tres humblemannt                    5 ie le demand Ia may mon cure a seruys loyalmant elas ie bien perdieu ma payn with

Cornysh

Textual Commentary
This piece appears in four voices in H. “Adew mes amours et mon desyre” is listed in the manuscript’s table of contents as the eighth work, with the second stanza (in a hand different from that of the original list’s compiler) listed in the page’s margin as the ninth work. “Adew mes amours et mon desyre” is attributed to Cornish in H but closely related, textually, to Alexander Agricola’s “Adieu m’amour et mon desir,” which appears in FlC2439 (ff. LXIIIIv–LXVr; LXVv–LXVIr), Heil (f. 10r), PBP504 (3, #LXVII), and LH5242 (ff. 30v–32r). Of these, full texts of the lyric are extant in FlC2439 (second instance) and LH5242; fragmentary texts, or incipits, are extant in FlC2439 (first instance), Heil, and PBP504.

The text found as the first voice of LH5242 is as below:


 * ADieu mamour et mon desir
 * de vous ie prans departement
 * si ie vous ay fait desplaisir
 * passant vostre commandement
 * pardonnez moy Ioyeuse ment                    5
 * Iay mis mon cueur a vous seruir
 * loyalle ment hellas hellas
 * Iay bien per du ma paine
 * hellas Iay bien per du ma paine

“Adew mes amours et mon desyre” is reprinted in Stevens M&P (389), Stevens MCH8 (12), Lerner (ed., Agricola 5.xliii–xliv), and elsewhere.

Texts Collated
H1,2,3,4 (ff. 15v–17r).


 * 8  undefinedelas ~ payn] elas ~ payn elas ie bien perdieu ma payne. H1,3,4, elas ~ payn elas ie bien perdieu ma payne elas ie bien perdieu ma payn H2