Copy, in the hand of the English merchant Thomas Codrington, 20 September 1637.
In an album compiled by the interpreter to the German legation of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein to the court of Shah Sefi I in Isfahan, Persia.
1637.
Edited from this MS in Dirk Erpenbeck, William Strode's On Chloris Walking: A Version from Esthonia, N&Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 207.
Edited from this MS in Dirk Erpenbeck, William Strode's On Chloris Walking: A Version from Esthonia, N&Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 207.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).