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===Jones, ''The Arbour of Amorous Devices'' (1597)===
===Jones, ''The Arbour of Amorous Devices'' (1597)===
A printed version appeared in Richard Jones, ''The Arbour of Amorous Devices'' (1597, STC 3631), sigs. B1<sup>r-v</sup>, under the title "A Lady's Complaint for the Loss of Her Love". See the Open-Access version of [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A16729.0001.001/1:7?c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=The+arbor+of+amorous+deuises EEBO-TCP]:
A printed version appeared in Richard Jones, ''The Arbour of Amorous Devices'' (1597, STC 3631), sigs. B1<sup>r-v</sup>, under the title "A Lady's Complaint for the Loss of Her Love". See the Open-Access version of [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A16729.0001.001/1:7?c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1;q1=The+arbor+of+amorous+deuises EEBO-TCP]:
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:''A Ladies complaint for the losse of her Loue.''


<blockquote>''A Ladies complaint for the losse of her Loue.''<br>
COme follow me you Nymphes,
<br>
Whose eyes are neuer drie,
COme follow me you Nymphes,<br>
Augment your wayling number nowe
Whose eyes are neuer drie,<br>
With me poore Emelie.
Augment your wayling number nowe<br>
 
With me poore Emelie.<br>
Giue place ye to my plaintes,
<br>
Whose ioyes are pincht with paines
Giue place ye to my plaintes,<br>
My loue, alas through foule mishap,
Whose ioyes are pincht with paines<br>
Most cruell death hath slaine,
My loue, alas through foule mishap,<br>
 
Most cruell death hath slaine,<br>
What wight can wel, alas,
<br>
my sorrowes now indite?
What wight can wel, alas,<br>
I waile & want my new desire
my sorrowes now indite?<br>
I lack my new delite,
I waile & want my new desire<br>
 
I lack my new delite,<br>
Gush out my trickling teares,
<br>
Like mighty floods of raine,
Gush out my trickling teares,<br>
My Knight alas, through foule mishap
Like mighty floods of raine,<br>
Most cruell death hath slaine.
My Knight alas, through foule mishap<br>
 
Most cruell death hath slaine.<br>
Oh hap alas most hard,
<br>
Oh death why didst thou so?
Oh hap alas most hard,<br>
Why could not I embrace my ioy,
Oh death why didst thou so?<br>
for me that bid such woe?
Why could not I embrace my ioy,<br>
 
for me that bid such woe?<br>
False Fortunu out, alas,
<br>
Woe worth thy subtill traine,
False Fortunu out, alas,<br>
Whereby my loue through foule mishap,
Woe worth thy subtill traine,<br>
Most cruell death hath slaine.
Whereby my loue through foule mishap,<br>
 
Most cruell death hath slaine.<br>
Rock me a sleepe in woe,
<br>
You wofull Sisters three,
Rock me a sleepe in woe,<br>
Oh cut you off my fatall threed,
You wofull Sisters three,<br>
Dispatch poore ''Emelie''.
Oh cut you off my fatall threed,<br>
 
Dispatch poore ''Emelie''.<br>
Why should I liue, alas,
<br>
And linger thus in paine?
Why should I liue, alas,<br>
Farewell my life, sith that my loue
And linger thus in paine?<br>
Most cruell death hath slaine.         ''Finis.''
Farewell my life, sith that my loue<br>
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Most cruell death hath slaine. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ''Finis.''</blockquote>
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Revision as of 22:51, 7 August 2018

Richard Edwards (1566)


Historical Records

BL Add. MS 26737

A song entitled "An Elegie on the death of a Sweetheart" and followed by an attribution to Edwards and the note "The song of Emelye", is preserved in a seventeenth-century manuscript:

Add ms 26737 f106v.jpg


British Library Add. MS 26737, fo.106v, reproduced by permission.



Jones, The Arbour of Amorous Devices (1597)

A printed version appeared in Richard Jones, The Arbour of Amorous Devices (1597, STC 3631), sigs. B1r-v, under the title "A Lady's Complaint for the Loss of Her Love". See the Open-Access version of EEBO-TCP:



     A Ladies complaint for the losse of her Loue.

COme follow me you Nymphes,
Whose eyes are neuer drie,
Augment your wayling number nowe
With me poore Emelie.

Giue place ye to my plaintes,
Whose ioyes are pincht with paines
My loue, alas through foule mishap,
Most cruell death hath slaine,

What wight can wel, alas,
my sorrowes now indite?
I waile & want my new desire
I lack my new delite,

Gush out my trickling teares,
Like mighty floods of raine,
My Knight alas, through foule mishap
Most cruell death hath slaine.

Oh hap alas most hard,
Oh death why didst thou so?
Why could not I embrace my ioy,
for me that bid such woe?

False Fortunu out, alas,
Woe worth thy subtill traine,
Whereby my loue through foule mishap,
Most cruell death hath slaine.

Rock me a sleepe in woe,
You wofull Sisters three,
Oh cut you off my fatall threed,
Dispatch poore Emelie.

Why should I liue, alas,
And linger thus in paine?
Farewell my life, sith that my loue
Most cruell death hath slaine.         Finis.




Theatrical Provenance

Performed at Christ Church, Oxford before the Queen on 04 September 1566.


Probable Genre(s)

Tragedy (Harbage); comedy (Stow); history (contemporary reference); romance (Wiggins).


Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.


References to the Play

Stow:

Comedies also and Tragedies were played in Christes Churche, where the Quéenes Highnesse dged. Among the whych, the Comedie entituled PalemonMisfortune at Oxford. and Arcet, made by Maister Edwards of the Quéenes Chap∣pel, had suche tragicall successe as was lamentable: For at that time by the fall of a wall and a payre of staires, & great presse of the multitude, thrée men were slaine (1130, EEBO-TCP (Open-Access))



Critical Commentary

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For What It's Worth

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Works Cited

Jones, Richard. The arbor of amorous deuises VVherin, young gentlemen may reade many plesant fancies, and fine deuises: and thereon, meditate diuers sweete conceites, to court the loue of faire ladies and gentlewomen by N.B. Gent. Imprinted at London : By Richard Iohnes, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne, neere Saint Andrewes Church in Holborne, 1597.




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