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English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century


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 1. 
1. Sunset on Calvary.
 2. 
2. Penitence for Wasted Life.
 3. 
3. ‘On God Ureisun of Ure Lefdi.’
 4. 
[4. Stabat iuxta Christi Crucem.]
 5. 
5. A Prisoner's Prayer.
 6. 
6. ‘Sumer Is Icumen In.’
 7. 
7. Now Comes the Blast of Winter.
 8. 
8. I Walk with Sorrow.
 9. 
9. Love's Madness.
 10A. 
10. Death's Wither-Clench. [A.]
 10B. 
[10. Death's Wither-Clench. B.]
 11A. 
11. Three Sorrowful Tidings. [A.]
 11B. 
[11. Three Sorrowful Tidings. B.]
 12A. 
12. Three Sorrowful Things. [A.]
 12B. 
[12. Three Sorrowful Things. B.]
 13. 
13. Memorare Novissima Tua.
 14. 
14. A Warning to Sir Eode.
 15. 
15. A Prayer to the Redeemer.
 16. 
16. Mater Salutaris.
 17A. 
17. Of One That Is So Fair and Bright. [A.]
 17B. 
[17. Of One That Is So Fair and Bright. B.]
 18. 
18. A Prayer of the Five Joys.
 19. 
19. The Lily with Five Leaves.
 20. 
20. Shroud and Grave.
 21A. 
21. Tell Me, Wight in the Broom. [A.]
 21B. 
[21. Tell Me, Wight in the Broom. B.]
 22. 
22. Gaude Virgo Mater Christi.
 23. 
23. The Ten Commandments.
 24. 
24. A Light Is Come to the World.
 25. 
25. The Bargain of Judas.
 26. 
26. The Journey of the Three Kings.
 27. 
27. Look on Me with Thy Sweet Eyes.
 28a. 
28a. Doomsday.
 28b. 
28b. Doomsday.
 29. 
29. The Latemest Day. [A.]
 29. 
[29. The Latemest Day. B.]
 30. 
30. When the Turf is Thy Tower.
 31. 
31. I Sing of One That is Matchless.
 32A. 
32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [A.]
 32B. 
[32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [B.]
 32C. 
[32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [C.]
 33. 
33. Aspice Mitissime Conditor.
 34. 
34. Man's Leman on the Rood.
 35A. 
35. My Leman on the Rood. I. [A.]
 35B. 
[35. My Leman on the Rood. I. B.]
 36. 
36. My Leman on the Rood. II.
 37. 
37. My Leman on the Rood. III.
 38. 
38. Over the Bier of the Worldling.
 39. 
39. Will and Wit.
 40. 
40. Weal Is a Cursed Thing.
 41. 
41. The Five Blisses.
 42. 
42. An Antiphon of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
 43. 
43. Friar Thomas de Hales' Love Ron.
 44. 
44. Gabriel's Greeting to Our Lady.
 45. 
45. Jesus Sorrows for His Mother.
 46A. 
46. This World's Bliss Will Not Last. [A.]
 46B. 
[46. This World's Bliss Will Not Last. B.]
 47. 
47. Our Lady Sorrows for Her Son.
 48. 
48. ‘Vbi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount.’
 49A. 
49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus on the Cross. [A.]
 49B. 
[49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus. B.]
 50. 
50. ‘Swete Ihesu King of Blisse.’
 51. 
51. ‘Le Regret de Maximian.’
 52. 
52. The Thrush and the Nightingale.
 53. 
53. What Love Is Like.
 54. 
54. A Springtide Song of the Redemption.
 55. 
55. A Prayer to the Mother of Mildness.
 56A. 
56. The Mind of the Passion. [A.]
 56B. 
[56. The Mind of the Passion. B.]
 57. 
57. Be Free with What Christ Sends.
 58. 
58. World's Bliss Have Good Day.
 59. 
59. A Hymn to the Heavenly Father.
 60. 
60. A Song to the Queen of Heaven.
 61. 
61. Mother Mild, Flower of All.
 62. 
62. Now Springs the Spray.
 63. 
63. A Spring Song of Love to Jesus.
 64. 
64. A Song of Sorrow for the Passion.
 65. 
65. An Orison of Penitence to Our Lady.
 66. 
66. I Will Become a Friar.
 67. 
67. A Bidding Prayer.
 68. 
68. Our Lady Help Us at Our Ending.
 69. 
69. In Sign of Love to Man.
 70A. 
70. Decem Precepta. [A.]
 70B. 
70. Decem Precepta. B.]
 71. 
71. Proprietates Mortis.
 72. 
72. A Song of Lewes.
 73. 
73. From Earth to Earth.
 74. 
74. On the Follies of Fashion.
 88. 
[88. A Prayer of Penitence to God Almighty. B.]

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18. A Prayer of the Five Joys.

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Trinity Coll. Camb. MS. 323.

v gaudia
Seinte marie, leuedi brist,
moder þov art of muchel mist,
quene in heuene of feire ble.
gabriel to þe he liste
þe he brovste al wid riste
þen holi gost to listen in þe.
godes word ful wel þov cnewe;
ful mildeliche þer-to þov bewe
ant saidest so it mote be,—
þi þonc was studeuast ant trewe.
for þe ioye þat to was newe,
leuedi, þov haue merci of me.
28

seinte marie, moder milde,
þi fader bi-com to one childe—
suc ioye ne scal neuer eft be.
þe stronge fend þat was so wilde,
godes hondiwerc he spilde
for on appel of þe tre.
leuedi, mon þov brovtest bote,
þe stronge fend an-vnder fote,
þo þi sone was boren of þe.
for þe ioye þat þo was swote,
leuedi, yemme grace þat i mote
wid al mine miste louien þe.
seinte marie, quene in londe,
godes moder ant godes sonde,
þat te sculde ben so wo
iewes heden þi sone an honde—
iudas sold im hem to honde—
on þe rode heo gonnen him slo.
þe þridde dai he ros to liue;
leuedi, ofte were þov bliþe
ac neuer so þov were þo.
leuedi, for þen ilke siþe
þat tov were of þi sone bliþe,
al mi sunnes þov do me fro.
Seinte marie, maydan ant mere,
so lengore o so betere þov were;
þov here hem alle þat clepet to þe.
In muchele blisse þat tov were
þo þinne swete sone ibere
iseie him into heuene sten.
29

e sit arist as vre drist
ant weldet al as hit is rist.
we mowen iheren ant isen,
leuedi, for þi muchele miste
þe swete blisse of heuene briste,
seinte marie, hernde me.
Þe fifte ioie is feirest in wede
þo þov in-to heuene trede
to him þat was of þe iborn.
nov þov art in heuene quene
mit tine sone brist ant scene—
al folc þe heret þer-fore—
þer is ioie ant eke blisse
þat euer last wid-ovte misse,
ant þer þov art quene icorn.
leuedi, tuet þov me mi bene;
for þe ioie þat euer is newe
þov let me neuer be fur-lorn.
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