XVI
"Mets, chanson, icy frain A si triste complainte, Dont sera le refrain: 'Amour vraye et non faincte Pour séparation N'a diminution'."
XVII
Tel estoit le doux chant De Dame souveraine, Qui, mon cœur arrachant D'une fuite soudaine, Me donna en ce lieu Coup mortel d'un Adieu.
We recall that the stanzas which we have numbered I and II constitute the Song which, according to Brantôme, was composed "at Court"; and that those from VI to XVI, inclusively, are, with an alteration of the first line, and some slight variations elsewhere, what he called the Song of Mary Stuart herself. The title, the three connecting stanzas III-V, and also the last, XVII, were discovered in the Périgueux manuscript
Transcriber Note: - In MAISTER RANDOLPHE'S FANTASIE,
- letters with macrons over them are shown as "y¯"
- the letters vr with a tilde over them are shown as "vr~"