To hide my love, and yet all will not do.
For other forms see Metrik, ii, § 305.
§ 252. Four-lined, one-rhymed stanzas of four-foot verses (used in Low Latin, Provençal and Old French poetry, cf. Metrik, i, p. 369) are early met with in Middle English poems, as in Wright’s Spec. of Lyr. Poetry, pp. 57 and 68.
The first begins with these verses, which happen to show a prevailing trochaic rhythm.
Suete iesu, king of blysse,
Myn huerte loue, min huerte lisse,
Þou art suete myd ywisse,
Wo is him þat þe shall misse.
Suete iesu, myn huerte lyht,
Þou art day withoute nyht;