University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century


collapse section 
[section]
 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.]

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century
next section

60. A Song to the Queen of Heaven.

[_]

Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. MS. 59.

Edi beo þu, heuene quene,
folkes froure & engles blis,
moder unþemmed & maiden clene—
sþich in þorld non oþer nis.
On þé hit is þel eþ sene
of alle þimmen þu hauest þet pris;
mi sþete leuedi, her mi béne
& reu of mé ȝif þi þille is.
Þu asteȝe so þe daiȝ-reþe,
þe deleð from þe deorke nicht,
of þe sprong á leóme neþe
þat al þis þorld haueð iliȝt.
Nis non maide of þine heoþe
sþo fair, so sschene, so rudi, sþo bricht;
sþete leuedi, of me þu reoþe
& haue merci of þin knicht.
Spronge blostme of one rote,
þe holi gost þe reste upón,
þet þes for monkunnes bote
& heore soule to alesen for on.
Leuedi milde, softe & sþote,
ic crie þe merci, ic am þi mon,
boþe to honde & to fote,
on alle þise þat ic kon.
117

Þu ert eórþe to gode sede,
on þe liȝte þe heouene deúȝ,
of þe sprong þeó edi blede,
þe holi gost hire on þe séuȝ.
Þu bring us út of kare of dréde
þat Eue bitterliche us breúȝ,
þu sschalt us in-to heóuene lede—
þelle sþete is þe ilke déuȝ.
Moder, ful of þeþes hende,
Maide dreiȝ & þel itaucht,
ic ém in þine loue-bende,
& to þe is al mi draucht.
Þu me sschildȝe from þe feonde,
ase þu ert freó & þilt & maucht,
help me to mi liues ende,
& make me þið þin sone isauȝt.
Þu ert icumen of heȝe kunne,
of dauid þe riche king,
nis non maiden under sunne
þe mei beó þin eueni[n]g,
Ne þat sþo derne louiȝe kunne,
ne non sþo treoþe of alle þing;
þi loue us brouchte eche þunne,
ihered ibeó þu, sþete þing!
Seolcudliche ure louerd hit diȝte
þat þu, maide þið-ute þère,
þat al þis þorld bicluppe ne miȝte,
þu sscholdest of þin boseme bere.
118

Þe ne stiȝte ne þe ne priȝte
in side in lende ne elles-þhere—
þat þes þið ful muchel riȝte,
for þu bere þine helere.
Þo godes sune aliȝte þolde
on eórþe al for ure sake,
herre teȝen he him nolde
þene þat maide to beon his make.
Betere ne miȝte hé, þaiȝ hé þolde,
ne sþetture þing, on eórþe take.
leuedi, bring ús to þine bolde,
& sschild ús from helle þrake.
AMEN.
previous section English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century
next section