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My hart I gave thee not to doe it paine

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BL Additional MS 4797 (16th century)
My hart I gave thee not to doe it paine

Witness description: 16th and 17th centuries. 138 ff. A composite manuscript with two Elizabethan poems in the first gathering of vellum leaves. See My harte I gave the not to do it paine in the Devonshire Manuscript.

1310587BL Additional MS 4797 — My hart I gave thee not to doe it paine16th century
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My hart I gave thee not to doe it paine
but to preserve Loe it to the was taken
My I served the not that I sholde be foresakene
but that I soue I sould receve reward againe
5 I was content thy servante to remayne
and not to be repayed not this fashion
now since sinc in thee it none other reason
displease thee not if that I doe refrayne
unsatiatat of my wo and thy
10 Assured by craft for to excuse thy faut
but since it pleseth [] to find faut
farewell I saye departing from [] f [] re
for he that doth [] that []
ploweth in the [] so []