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The poems of John Audelay

Edited with introduction, notes and glossary [by Ella Keats Whiting]
Audelay, John

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Audite hec, omnes gentes: hanc epistolam scripsit Dominus Ihesus Christus manibus suis et misit in siuitatem Gazon vbi ego Petrus primum episcopatum accepi.
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In die epephanis &c.
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In die Sancti Stephani.

In reuerens of oure Lord in heuen
Worchip þis marter, swete Sent Steuen.
Saynt Steuen þe first martere,
He ched his blod in herþ here;
Fore þe loue of his Lord so dere,
He sofird payn and passion.
He was stonyd with stons ful cruelle,
And sofird his payn ful pasiently;
Lord, of myn enmes þou haue merce
Þat wot not what þai done.
He beheld into heuen on he,
And se Ihesu stonde in His maieste,
And sayd, ‘My soule, Lord, take to þe,
And foreȝif myn enmys euerechon.’
Þen when þat word he had sayd,
God þer-of was wel apayd;
His hede mekele to slep he layd;
His sowle was takyn to heuen anon.
Swete Saynt Steuen fore vs þou pray,
To þat Lord þat best may,
When our soule schal wynd away,
He grawntus al remyssion.
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