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- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 33
The text in Weelkes' Madrigals, 1597.
followed in that anthology by the first half (twenty-six lines out of fifty-six of Barnfield's fully accredited ‘Ode’—‘As it fell upon a day’), which bore the heading ‘Another of the same shepherds’. Though the editor of *England’s Helicon* appended to the fragment of Barnfield’s ‘Ode’ the signature ‘Ignoto’, the authorship of those verses is not in doubt. ‘The same shepherd’ is Barnfield, and there is no valid ground for rejecting the attribution to his pen of the preceding poem, ‘My flocks feed not.’
It seems unlikely that Jaggard drew the ‘copy’ of ‘My flocks feed not’ directly from Weelkes’ volume. Apart from three misprints and minor differences in spelling for which Jaggard’s printer may be held responsible (e.g. ‘nenying’ for ‘renying’, l. 4; ‘woven’ for ‘women’, l. 12; ‘blacke’ for ‘backe’, l. 28), there are textual discrepancies between his and Weelkes’ versions which suggest that Jaggard employed ‘copy’ other than that which Weelkes followed. In neither volume are the words carefully printed, and the sense is in both texts difficult to follow. At the end of the first stanza (ll. 11–12), Weelkes reads:—
For now I see inconstancie
More in women then in many men to be:
Jaggard reads:—
For now I see, inconstancy,
More in woven [i.e. women] then in men remaine.
Here the rime with ‘dame’, though not good, is improved by Jaggard.
In the second stanza, ll. 10–11 appear in Weelkes thus:—
With howling noyse to see my dolfull plight;
How sighes resound through harcklesse ground.
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