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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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72. A Song of Lewes.

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MS. Harley 2253.

Sitteþ alle stille & herkneþ to me!
þe kyng of alemaigne, bi mi leaute,
þritti þousent pound askede he
fforte make þe pees in þe countre,
ant so he dude more.
Richard, þah þou be euer trichard,
tricchen shalt þou neuermore!
Richard of alemaigne, whil þat he wes kyng
He spende al is tresour opon swyuyng,
Haueþ he nout of walingford o ferlyng;
let him habbe ase he brew, bale to dryng,
Maugre Wyndesore.
Richard, þah þou be euer trichard,
tricchen shalt þou neuer more!
Þe kyng of alemaigne wende do ful wel,
he saisede þe mulne for a castel,
wiþ hare sharpe swerdes he grounde þe stel,
he wende þat þe sayles were mangonel
to helpe Wyndesore.
Richard, &c.
Þe kyng of alemaigne gederede ys host,
makede him a castel of a mulne post,
wende wiþ is prude ant is muchele bost,
brohte from alemayne mony sori gost
to store Wyndesore.
Richard, &c.
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By god þat is abouen ous, he dude muche synne
þat lette passen ouer see þe erl of Warynne;
he haþ robbed engelond, þe mores ant þ[e] fenne,
þe gold ant þe seluer and yboren henne
for loue of Wyndesore.
Richard, &c.
Sire simond de mountfort haþ suore bi ys chyn,
heuede he nou here þe erl of waryn,
shulde he neuer more come to is yn,
ne wiþ sheld ne wiþ spere ne wiþ oþer gyn,
to help of Wyndesore.
Richard, &c.
Sire simond de montfort haþ suore bi ys top,
Heuede he nou here sire hue de bigot,
al he shulde quite here tuelfmoneþ scot,
shulde he neuer more wiþ his fot pot
to helpe Wyndesore.
Richard, &c.
Be þe luef be þe loht, sire edward,
þou shalt ride sporeles o þy lyard
al þe ryhte way to douere ward;
shalt þou neuermore breke foreward,
Ant þat reweþ sore.
Edward þou dudest ase a shreward,
forsoke þyn emes lore.
Richard, &c.
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