The Lyrics of Henry VIII/Ough warder mount (Unattributed, Incipit)

[ff. 46v-47r]

Ough warder mount

Textual Commentary
“Ough warder mount” appears as an incipit in H, complete for voices one, three, and four but as “Ough warder” for the second. There is no room left for large initial block capitals, except for that which appears for the fourth voice (the first and third voices have small initial capitals, and the second has a standard height capital). The piece is listed in the manuscript’s table of contents as the thirty-seventh work.

The same piece appears in LR58 (f. 54r), similarly without text, and in many continental examples. Below, according to Stevens (MCH8 34), is a full text for the work, from Das Liederbuch des Arnt von Aich (Bournoulli and Moser, eds., 36).


 * O werder mund
 * won dir ist wund
 * mein hertzen grund
 * solt ich und kunt
 * wunschen die stund                                        5
 * die mir glück gunt
 * und dich entzund
 * auch des verbund
 * das ich gnad fund
 * bei dir so wurd mein hertz gesund                10


 * Wann ich beger
 * auf erd nit mer
 * dann deiner ler
 * darduch dein er
 * vor allem gfer                                                15
 * versichert wer
 * nun bitt ich ker
 * dich zu mir her
 * wen mir mein schwer
 * kein sach mir höher freud geber.                  20


 * Darum schrei ich
 * gar hertziglich
 * zu dir und sprich
 * verlass nit mich
 * ich hoff in dich                                               25
 * und nimmer brich
 * das selb ansich
 * des klaffers stich
 * an mir nit rich
 * all welt sunst lieber von mir wich.

Stevens (MCH8 105n42, after Lenaerts 61) also lists the following shorter text:
 * O waerde mont, ghy macht ghezont
 * tot alderstont
 * Als ic by u macht wezen
 * zo sou ic al ghenezen

“Ough warder mount” is reprinted in Stevens (MCH8 34, 105n42), Bournoulli and Moser (eds. 36), and Lenaerts (61), among others.

Texts Collated
H1,2,3,4 (ff. 46v–47r).


 * 1    mount] omit H2