SEARCH RECORDS
SEARCH MSS
PRINTED BOOKS
INSCRIPTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
DIMEV HOME
The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
DIMEV 1426
IMEV 857
NIMEV 857
Forsick in woe and far from joyous heal
A roundel, translated from the French of Charles d’Orléans (Champollion-Figeac (1842), 40) — 14 lines
Author(s): Charles d’Orléans
Subjects: roundels; love, wounds of
Versification: — roundel — abbaabababbaab


Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 682, f. 76
First Lines:
FOrseek in woo and fer from ioyous hele
Wherin all welthe doth most to on habounde…
Last Lines:
…Myn hert allas y fele in sorow wounde
Without rekeuer of comfort lo or wele
Note: As written, repeats first words of lines 1-2 at end to indicate going back to first four lines of the roundel; in second line, “to on” added above the line by a later hand.
Facsimiles:
Digital Facsimile of British Library Harley MS 682. https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_682.
Editions:
Taylor, G. Watson. Poems Written in English by Charles Duke of OrleansOrleans, during his Captivity in England after the Battle of Azincourt Roxburghe Club 44. London, 1827: 57.
Steele, Robert, ed. Charles of Orleans: The English Poems. Vol. 1. EETS o.s. 215 (1941); vol. 2. ed. Robert Steele and Mabel Day, o.s. 220; repr. as one volume, 1970: 120.
Arn, Mary-Jo, ed. Fortunes Stabilnes: Charles of Orleans’s English Book of Love. A Critical Edition. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994: 269-70.