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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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3. It is my Father's Will

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Bodleian MS. Add. A. 106 (Sum. Catal. No. 29003)

Lullay, lullay, my lityl chyld, slepe & be now styll;
If þu be a lytill chyld ȝitt may þu haue þi wyll.
‘How suld I now, þu fayre may, fall apone a slepe?
better me thynke þat I may fall apone & wepe
Fore he þat mad both nyght & day, cold & also hette,
now layde I ame in a wispe of hay I cane noder go nore crepe
Bot wel I wate as well I may—slepe & be now styll—
Suffre þe paynes þat I may; it is my fader wyll.
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Seys þu noȝte, þu fayr may, & heris þu noȝte also
How kynge herod, þat keyne knyght, & of his peres mo
þat be a-bowte nyght & day my body fore to slo?
þai seke me both nyght & day at werke me mekyll wo,
bot well I wate as well I may—slepe & be now styll—
Suffre þe paynes þat I may; it is my fader wyll.
How suld I now, þu fayre may, how suld I now myrth make?
My songe is mad of walaway; fore dred I begyne to whake,
Fore drede of þat ilk day at I my deth sall take
& suffre þe paynes þat I may fore synfull man sake.
Fore well I wate as well I may—slepe & be now styll—
Suffre þe paynes þat I may; it is my fader wyll.
bot ȝitt me thynk it well besett If man haue of me mynd,
& al my paynes well besett If man to me be kynd.
þare is no deth at sall me let, & I hym trew fynd,
One þe rode fore to sytt, my handis for to bynd.
bot well I wat as well I may—slepe & be now styll—
Suffre þe paynes þat I may; it is my fader wyll.’
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