Tel estoit le doux chant
De Dame souveraine,
Qui, mon coeur 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