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

__NOTOC__ ← Pastyme with good companye || width="325" align="right" | Adew madam et ma mastress → [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).Stevens had noted earlier that "The opening of this song with its extended points of imitation is perhaps foreign in manner and unlike Cornish's other compositions in this manuscript. The song, however, has not been traced elsewhere" (MCH8 102, #8). 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. Textual Notes Texts Collated H1,2,3,4 (ff. 15v–17r). 8 elas ~ 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 References