The Lyrics of Henry VIII/Alles regretz uuidez dema presence (van Ghizeghem / Jean II of Bourbon, Incipit)

[ff. 5v-6r]

Alles regretz uuidez dema presence

Textual Commentary
This piece appears as a full first line in H1, though the second and third voices give simply “Alles regretz.” All three voices have block capitals and little room left among the musical notation for text. “Alles regretz uuidez dema presence” is listed in the manuscript’s table of contents as the third work. While not attributed in H, it was composed by Hayne van Ghizeghem with lyrics by Duke Jean II of Bourbon (Reese 100; P2245). This piece was also adapted by Alexander Agricola.

“Alles regretz uuidez dema presence” appears also in BQ17 (ff. 30v–31r), Br11239 (ff. 2v–4r), C1848 (414), CCap (#21), Fl107 (ff. 43v–44r), Fl117 (ff. 38v–39r), Fl178 (ff. 42v–43r), Fl229 (ff. 242v–243r), FlP27 (ff. 97v–98r), FlR2356 (ff. 91v–92r), FlR2794 (ff. 58v–59r), LR20 (ff. 20v–21r), P1597 (ff. 11v–12r), P1719 (ff. 30v, 144v), P2245 (ff. 17v–18r), PBP504 (3, #26), PBFm (#7), PBG33 (#34), PBOdh (ff. 62v–63r; ff. 53v–54r [Agricola]), RC2856 (ff. 96v–98r), RG27 (ff. 20v–21r / ff. 27v–28r; ff. 71v–72r / ff. 78v–79r [Agricola]), SAM (ff. 163v), SG461 (82–3 [Agricola]), T27 (f. 12v), T/Br (#1), Up76a (f. 1r), V757 (ff. 28v–29r), WLab (ff. 140v–142r), and Zw78 (#11), among others. Of these, full texts of the lyric are extant in Br11239, Fl117, FlR2356, FlR2794, LR20, P1597, P1719, P2245, T27, T/Br, and WLab; fragmentary texts, or incipits, are extant in BQ17, C1848, Fl107, Fl178, Fl229, FlP27, PBP504, PBOdh, RC2856, RG27, SAM, SG461, and Up76a.

The incipit of P1719 is closer to H in its reading than that of others of the tradition, and this text is provided below:


 * Allez Regretz vuidez de ma presence
 * allez ailleurs faire vostre acointance
 * assez auez tourmente mon las cueur
 * Remply de dueul pour estre serviteur
 * dune sans per que jay amee denfance                      5


 * Fait lui auez longuement ceste offense
 * ou est cellui qui point soit ne en france
 * qui endurast ce mortel deshonneur
 * Allez Regretz


 * Ny tournez plus car par ma conscience                   10
 * se plus vous voy prouchain de ma plaisance
 * devant chascun vous feray tel honneur


 * que len dira que la main dun seigneur
 * vous a bien mis ala malle meschance
 * Allez Regretz                                                            15

Br11239, another popular text, reads:


 * Ales regretz vuidies de ma plaisance
 * Alles allieurs querir vostre acointance


 * asses aues tourmente mon las cueur
 * Rempli de deul pour estre seruiteur
 * dune sans per que Jay aymee denfance                    5


 * Fait luy aues longuement ceste offense
 * Ou est celuy qui point soit ne en france
 * Qui endurast ce mortel deshonneur
 * Alles regretz


 * Ny tournes plus car par ma conscience                    10
 * Se plus vous voy prochain de ma presence
 * devant chascun vous feray tel honneur


 * que lon dira que la main dung seigneur
 * vous a bien mys a la male meschance
 * Allez regretz                                                               15

“Allez regretz uuidez dema presence” is reprinted in Atlas (1.81–82), Becherini (344), Droz and Thibault (49), Françon (184), Gombosi (#3), Hewitt (ed., Odhecaton 341–42), Lerner (ed., Agricola xxii–xxiii), Picker (Chanson Albums 416–8), Smijers (ed., des Prés 10.83), Stevens MCH8 (3), Wallis (139). The lyric is indexed in Fallows (Catalogue 81), among others.

Texts Collated
H1,2,3 (ff. 5v–6r).


 * 1   regretz] regret H1, regretz H2,3; uuidez dema presence] omit H2,3