The Lyrics of Henry VIII/Lyrics

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The Lyrics of Henry VIII
Appendix 1: Lyrics by Occasion/Theme | Appendix 2: Textual/Musical Witnesses | Appendix 3: Bibliography

Description of the Lyrics

Predominantly secular in tone, the lyrics contained in the Henry VIII MS chiefly reflect a lively and light court atmosphere, and a court culture whose influence echoed from the public sphere associated with Henry VIII and his entourage into the more private court circles of Wyatt^[1] and others further removed from the centre of court activity.^[2] The lyrics themselves are as follows:

Lyric	Folio
Benedictus [Isaac] (Incipit)	3v-4r
Fortune esperee [Busnois] (Incipit)	4v-5r
Alles regretz uuidez dema presece [van Ghizeghem / Jean II of Bourbon] (Incipit)	5v-6r
En frolyk weson [Barbireau] (Incipit)	6v-7r
Pastyme with good companye, Henry VIII	14v-15r
Adew mes amours et mon desyre, Cornish	15v-17r
Adew madam et ma mastress, Henry VIII	17v-18r
HElas madam cel que ie metant, Henry VIII	18v-19r
Alas what shall I do for love, Henry VIII	20v-21r
Hey nowe nowe, Kempe (Incipit)	21v
Alone I leffe alone, Cooper	22r
O my hart and o my hart, Henry VIII	22v-23r
Adew adew my hartis lust, Cornish	23v-24r
Aboffe all thynge, Farthing	24v
Downbery down, Daggere	25r
Hey now now, Farthing	25v
In may that lusty sesoun, Farthing	26r
Whoso that wyll hym selff applye, Rysby	27v-28r
The tyme of youthe is to be spent, Henry VIII	28v-29r
The thowghtes within my brest, Farthing	29v-30r
My loue sche morneth for me, Cornish	30v-31r
A the syghes that cum fro my hart, Cornish	32v-33r
With sorowfull syghs and greuos payne, Farthing	33v-34r
If I had wytt for to endyght [Unattributed]	34v-35r
Alac alac what shall I do, Henry VIII	35v
Hey nony nony nony nony no [Unattributed] (Incipit)	36r
Grene growith the holy, Henry VIII	37v-38r
Whoso that wyll all feattes optayne, Henry VIII	38v-39r
Blow thi hornne hunter, Cornish	39v-40r
De tous bien plane [van Ghizeghem] (Incipit)	40v-41r
Iay pryse amours [Unattributed] (Incipit)	41v-42r
Adew corage adew, Cornish	42v
Trolly lolly loly lo, Cornish	43v-44r
I love trewly withowt feynyng, Farthing	44v-45r
Yow and I and amyas, Cornish	45v-46r
Ough warder mount [Unattributed] (Incipit)	46v-47r
La season [Compère / Agricola] (Incipit)	47v-48r
If love now reynyd as it hath bene, Henry VIII	48v-49r
Gentyl prince de renom, Henry VIII (Incipit)	49v-50r
Sy fortune mace bien purchase [Unattributed]	50v-51r
Wherto shuld I expresse, Henry VIII	51v-52r
A robyn gentyl robyn, Cornish [Wyatt]	53v-54r
Whilles lyue or breth is in my brest, Cornish	54v-55r
Thow that men do call it dotage, Henry VIII	55v-56r
Departure is my chef payne, Henry VIII	60v
It is to me a ryght gret Ioy, Henry VIII (Incipit)	61r
I haue bene a foster, Cooper	65v-66r
Fare well my Ioy and my swete hart, Cooper	66v-68r
Withowt dyscord, Henry VIII	68v-69r
I am a joly foster [Unattributed]	69v-71r
Though sum saith that yough rulyth me [Henry VIII]	71v-73r
MAdame damours [Unattributed]	73v-74r
Adew adew le company [Unattributed]	74v-75r
Deme the best of euery dowt, Lloyd	79v
Hey troly loly loly [Unattributed]	80r
Taunder Naken, Henry VIII (Incipit)	82v-84r
Whoso that wyll for grace sew, Henry VIII	84v-85r
En vray Amoure, Henry VIII	86v-87r
Let not vs that yongmen be [Unattributed]	87v-88r
Dulcis amica [Prioris] (Incipit)	88v-89r
Lusti yough shuld vs ensue, Henry VIII	94v-97r
Now [Unattributed]	98r
Belle sur tautes [Agricola] (Incipit)	99v-100r
ENglond be glad pluk vp thy lusty hart [Unattributed]	100v-102r
Pray we to god that all may gyde [Unattributed]	103r
Ffors solemant, [de Févin, after Ockeghem] (Incipit)	104v-105r
And I war a maydyn [Unattributed]	106v-107r
Why shall not I [Unattributed]	107v-108r
What remedy what remedy [Unattributed]	108v-110r
Wher be ye [Unattributed]	110v-112r
QUid petis o fily, Pygott	112v-116r
My thought oppressed my mynd in trouble [Unattributed]	116v-120r
Svmwhat musyng [Fayrfax / Woodville]	120v-122r
I loue vnloued suche is myn aduenture [Unattributed]	122v-124r
Hey troly loly lo [Unattributed]	124v-128r

Notes

↑ See, for example, those echoes of H (and later witnesses to texts contained in H) associated with the lyrics of those manuscripts closely associated with Wyatt’s work (LEge) and, also, Anne Boleyn’s circle (LDev).
↑ The best example of such dissemination is that of Henry’s “Pastyme with good companye” (H 14v-15r).

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[1] See, for example, those echoes of H (and later witnesses to texts contained in H) associated with the lyrics of those manuscripts closely associated with Wyatt’s work (LEge) and, also, Anne Boleyn’s circle (LDev).

[2] The best example of such dissemination is that of Henry’s “Pastyme with good companye” (H 14v-15r).

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