My soul where is thy Loue and Lorde – Scholarly Edition

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My soule where is thy Loue and Lorde1This poem is a fragment of “Amor Ordinem Nescit,” lines 49-56.
          seeing him thow canst not finde?
O cheere vp heart, be conforted
          for he is in thy minde
 
To him relation thow maiest haue
          as often as thow goes
Into the Closet2“It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me” (Canticles 3:4, Douay-Rheims Bible). of thy heart
          thy greefes for to disclose.






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Source: Baker, p. 251; see Bodleian, pp. 2-3