The Lyrics of Henry VIII/Fare well my Ioy and my swete hart, Cooper

← I haue bene a foster || width="325" align="right" | Withowt dyscord → [ff. 66v-68r] Fare well my Ioy and my swete hart fare well myne owne hart rote. frome yow a whyle must I depart ther ys none other bote ther ys none other bote.                                       5 Thowgh you depart now thus me fro and leue me all alone. my hart ys yours where euer that I go for yow do I mone. for you do I mone.                                              10 for you do I mone. D. Cooper Textual Commentary This lyric presents an exchange between two lovers at their leave-taking. The second stanza is a response, affirming constancy, to the first’s statement of departure. 2 heart rote Sweetheart, beloved one (OED “heart-root” 2); cf. usage also in Skelton’s “Woffully araid” (l. 19; in LFay ff. 63v–67r) and his Why Come ye not to Court (l. 664). 4 none other bote No other repair, remedy, or relief, [it is] no use (OED “boot” n1 I.3, II.5). “Fare well my loy and my swete hart” is through-set for three voices. This lyric is indexed in Robbins Index & Suppl. 765.5, Boffey, and Ringler MS TM403. Reprinted in Flügel Anglia 244, Flügel Neuengl 136, Stevens M&P 409, and Stevens MCH8 48–9. Textual Notes Texts Collated H1,2,3 (ff. 66v–68r). 1 hart] harte harte H2 3 must I] I must H2 4 none other] no nother H2,3 5 none other] no nother H2,3 7 all alone.] alone. H1, all alone^ H2, all alone. H3 10 for] fro H1