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Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century


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DIALOGUES BETWEEN THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND CHILD.
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MARIAN LAMENTS.
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SONGS AND PRAYERS TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN.
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HYMNS TO THE TRINITY.
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HYMNS TO GOD THE FATHER, CREATOR.
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HYMNS AND PRAYERS TO CHRIST.
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SONGS OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
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SONGS OF THE NATIVITY
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SONGS FOR THE EPIPHANY.
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HYMNS AND SONGS OF THE PASSION.
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APPEALS TO MAN FROM THE CROSS.
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COMPLAINTS OF CHRIST.
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EASTER SONGS.
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SONGS OF THE EUCHARIST.
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH.
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OCCASIONAL PRAYERS AND SONGS.
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PRAYERS TO THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.
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TWO PRAYERS BY LYDGATE AGAINST THE PESTILENCE.
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SONGS OF PENITENCE.
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SONGS OF OLD AGE.
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SONGS OF MORTALITY.
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149. Farewell, this World is but a Cherry Fair
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150. Man Begins and Ends in Wretchedness
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151. Vanitas Vanitatum
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152. A Mirror for Young Ladies at Their Toilet
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153. On the Untimely Death of a Fair Lady
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154. The Mirror of Mortality
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155. Three Lessons to Make Ready for Death
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156. Against Death Is no Defence
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157. Devouring Death Makes All Unbold
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158. Knight, King, Clerk Wend to Death
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159. The Lament of the Soul of Edward IV
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160. The Rich Man's Farewell to the World
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161. Beware the Pains of Purgatory
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162. The Testament of a Christian
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163. Death, the Soul's Friend
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164. Death, the Port of Peace
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SONGS AGAINST FORTUNE.
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SONGS OF THE DECADENCE OF VIRTUE.
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SONGS AGAINST VICES.
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PROVERBS AND MORAL SENTENCES.

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150. Man Begins and Ends in Wretchedness

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MS. Arch. Seld. B. 24 (Sum. Catal. No. 3354)

Thy begyning is barane brutelnes,
With wrechitnes wofull away thou w[endis]
The deth certane, the houre vnseker[nes],
The lyf so schort approching euer th[e end is]
Quho hiest clymbis most sud[danly descendis].
Quhat is her-of bot cast in god [thy cure]
And stand content of any avent[ure].
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Quho will aduert the grete [OMITTED]
Off this fals warld and won [OMITTED]
The grete vn-es Ingent aduersite
ffulfild of flatery and fals disse [OMITTED]
And man no wicht content is [OMITTED]
And thus but contrair thaim [OMITTED]
Quho leste here traistis I [OMITTED]
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