Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| HENCE, heart, with her that must depart, | |
| And hald thee with thy soverane! | |
| For I had liever want ane heart, | |
| Nor have the heart that dois me pain. | |
| Therefore, go, with thy love remain, | 5 |
| And let me leif thus unmolest; | |
| And see that thou come not again, | |
| But bide with her thou luvis best. | |
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| Sen she that I have servit lang | |
| Is to depart so suddenly, | 10 |
| Address thee now, for thou sall gang | |
| And bear thy lady company. | |
| Fra she be gone, heartless am I, | |
| For quhy? thou art with her possest. | |
| Therefore, my heart, go hence in high, | 15 |
| And bide with her thou luvis best. | |
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| Though this belappit body here | |
| Be bound to servitude and thrall, | |
| My faithful heart is free entier | |
| And mind to serve my lady at all. | 20 |
| Would God that I were perigall | |
| Under that redolent rose to rest! | |
| Yet at the least, my heart, thou sall | |
| Abide with her thou luvis best. | |
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| Sen in your garth the lily quhyte | 25 |
| May not remain amang the laif, | |
| Adieu the flower of whole delite! | |
| Adieu the succour that may me saif! | |
| Adieu the fragrant balme suaif, | |
| And lamp of ladies lustiest! | 30 |
| My faithful heart she shall it haif | |
| To bide with her it luvis best. | |
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| Deploir, ye ladies cleir of hue, | |
| Her absence, sen she must depart! | |
| And, specially, ye luveris true | 35 |
| That wounded bene with Luvis dart. | |
| For some of you sall want ane heart | |
| As well as I; therefore at last | |
| Do go with mine, with mind inwart, | |
| And bide with her thou luvis best! | 40 |
