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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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11. Stabat Mater Dolorosa
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12. Hail, Mother and Virgin Immaculate
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13. High Empress and Queen Celestial
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14. Thou shalt Bear the Fruit of Life
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15. A Salutation to the Virgin
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16. Mary, Pray thy Son for us
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17. Enixa Est Puerpera
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18. Ave Maris Stella
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19. Hail, Star of the Sea
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20. Mary, Bright Star of Heaven and Holy Church
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21. Hail, Queen of Heaven
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22. Ave Gloriosa
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23. Ave Regina Celorum, I
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24. Ave Regina Celorum, II
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25. Salve Regina
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26. An Expansion of Salve Regina
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27. Regina Celi Letare, I
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28. Regina Celi Letare, II
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29. Regina Celi Letare, III
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30. The Five Joys of Our Lady
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31. The Five Joys of Our Lady, with Acrostic
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32. An Orison to Our Lady by the Seven Joys
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33. A Salutation by the Heavenly Joys
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34. The Seven Joys of the Virgin in Heaven, I
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35. The Seven Joys of the Virgin in Heaven, II
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36. The Seven Joys of the Virgin in Heaven, III
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37. A Song of the Assumption
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38. The Coronation of the Virgin, I
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39. The Coronation of the Virgin, II
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40. Fresh Flower of Womanhood
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41. Mary, Be our Succour and Help
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42. Keep Us a Place in Paradise
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43. Our Lady and all the Angels, Pray for Me
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44. Mary, Remember Me at my Last Day
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45. I Have now Set my Heart so High
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46. A Love Message to My Lady
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47. I will Serve my Lady until Death
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48. I Will Have No Other Spouse
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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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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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33. A Salutation by the Heavenly Joys

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Royal MS. 17. A. xvi

Hayll be þu, qwen of gret honour!
our lord þi hert has fild wyth grace.
Of mede & ioy þu bers þo flour
þu pas all santis be-for gods face.
Haill be þu, spouse of gods chesyng!
Os son today in erth gifs lyght,
So my clernes gyfs lyghtynyng
Til all þo courte of heuen full bryght.
Hayll! wessell full of all godnes,
All heuenle courte dos þi byddyng
& worchyps þe wyth gret suetnes,
Os qwen of all wyth-oute irkyng.
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Hayll be þu, may of hegh lifyng!
Whos will & godis ar ay both on,
Þer-for he grauntis þe þin askyng,
ffor whom þu prays he warns þe none.
Haill! oure comforth, alway at nede
after þi will þi seruand her,
our lord reward & gife þaim mede
in heuen & erth wyth santis seyr.
Haill! fair moder of criste Ihū,
Þat sitis nest god in trinite
Schinand in flech, of all vertu
is non þe like ne neuer sall be.
Haill be þu, flour of women all!
þu art sikyr þat þes ioes sewen
Sall neuer decres ne ȝhit doune fall
bot last in blis alway in heuene.
ffor þes sewene ioes, for hus þu pray,
moder of criste þat hus has boght,
Þat he hus kepe both nyght & day
& set in hym our luf & thoght.
Criste ihū, lord of maieste,
Þat has in heuen wyth gret lowyng
Worchipt & set þi moder fre
in ioy & blis of all likyng,
Þu graunte hus grace thorgh her prayer,
þi will to do all oure lifyng,
& kepe hus ay fro perels here,
& graunte scho be at our endyng
hus to defend fro our enmys,
& comforth hus wyth þi mercy,
So þat we may in paradice
Wyth þe & her duell endlesly.
Amen.
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