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The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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Part I. RELIGIOUS POEMS.
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1. BENEDIC ANIMA MEA DOMINO.
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2. BENEDICTUS DEUS IN DONIS SUIS.
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3. DEUS IN NOMINE TUO SALUUM ME FAC.
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4. AN EPISTLE TO SIBILLE.
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5. THE PATER NOSTER TRANSLATED.
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6. A PRAYER IN OLD AGE.
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7. TE DEUM LAUDAMUS.
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8. VEXILLA REGIS PRODEUNT.
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9. GOD IS MYN HELPERE.
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10. A DEFENCE OF HOLY CHURCH.
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11. A PROCESSION OF CORPUS CRISTI.
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12. AN HOLY MEDYTACION.
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13. LETABUNDUS.
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14. AN EXPOSITION OF THE PATER NOSTER.
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15. MISERICORDIAS DOMINI IN ETERNUM CANTABO.
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16. ON DE PROFUNDIS.
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17. POEMS ON THE MASS.
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18. THE FIFFTENE TOKNYS AFORN THE DOOM.
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19 PRAYERS TO TEN SAINTS.
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20. TO ST. EDMUND.
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21. A DEVOWTE INVOCACIOUN TO SAINTE DENYS.
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22. A PRAISE OF ST. ANNE.
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23. AN INVOCATION TO SEYNTE ANNE.
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24. A PRAYERE TO SEYNT MICHAELL.
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25. A PRAYEER TO GAUBRIELL.
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26. TO ST. KATHERINE, ST. MARGARET, AND ST. MARY MAGDALENE.
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27. A PRAYER TO ST. LEONARD.
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28. TO ST. OSITHA.
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29. TO ST. ROBERT OF BURY.
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30. A PRAYER TO SEYNT THOMAS.
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31. A PRAYER TO ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY.
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32. TO ST. URSULA AND THE ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS.
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33. THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE.
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34. THE LEGENDE OF ST. PETRONILLA.
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35. HOW THE PLAGUE WAS CEASED IN ROME.
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36. THE LEGEND OF SEYNT GYLE.
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37. THE LEGEND OF SEYNT MARGARETE.
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38. THE LEGEND OF ST. AUSTIN AT COMPTON.
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39. THE EIGHT VERSES OF ST. BERNARD.
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40. THE EIGHT VERSES OF ST. BERNARD.
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41. A PRAYER FOR KING, QUEEN, AND PEOPLE, 1429.
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42. CRISTES PASSIOUN.
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43. A SEYING OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
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44. THE CHILD JESUS TO MARY, THE ROSE.
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45. CRISTE QUI LUX ES ET DIES.
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46. THE FIFTEEN OOES OF CHRIST.
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47. THE DOLEROUS PYTE OF CRYSTES PASSIOUN.
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48. A PRAYER UPON THE CROSS.
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49. BALLADE AT THE REVERENCE OF OUR LADY, QWENE OF MERCY.
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50. THE FYFFTENE IOYES OF OURE LADY (II).
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51. THE FIFTEEN JOYS AND SORROWS OF MARY.
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52. AVE MARIA!
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53. TO MARY, THE STAR OF JACOB.
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54. TO MARY, THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.
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55. GAUDE VIRGO MATER CHRISTI.
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56. THE IMAGE OF OUR LADY.
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57. AVE REGINA CELORUM.
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58. REGINA CELI LETARE.
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59. STELLA CELI EXTIRPAUIT (I).
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60. STELLA CELI EXTIRPAUIT (II).
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61. A PRAYER TO MARY IN WHOM IS AFFIAUNCE.
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62. ON THE IMAGE OF PITY.
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63. AVE, JESSE VIRGULA!
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64. A VALENTINE TO HER THAT EXCELLETH ALL.
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65. THE LEGEND OF DAN JOOS.
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66. GLORIOSA DICTA SUNT DE TE.
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67. QUIS DABIT MEO CAPITI FONTEM LACRIMARUM?
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68. THE TESTAMENT OF DAN JOHN LYDGATE.
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69. A KALENDARE.
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Part II. SECULAR POEMS.

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28. TO ST. OSITHA.

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[MS. B. M. Harley 2255, leaf 116, back.]

Incipit'de Sancta Ositha.

1

Heyl hooly Sitha, maide of gret vertu,
Which with hool herte and devout obseruaunce
Wer evir besy to serve our lord Iesu,
Nyht and day hym for to do plesaunce,
To poore folk refut of ther grevaunce,
Nakyd to clothe, the hungry for to feede,
Alle disconsolat of feithful attendaunce,
Them to refressh and help them in ther neede.

2

In thy riht hand thu heeld a litil stoon
To bete thy brest of hool affeccioun,
Wakir in prayeer, abide evir in Oon,
With contrit terys makyng thyn Orisoun,
Socour to sorweful in tribulacioun,
Gracious expleit ther iourne for to speede,
That haue in the set ther devocioun
Geyn al myscheef, to helpe hem in ther neede.

3

O blissid Sitha! flouryng in chastite,
Which of clennesse hast sovereyn excellence
To such as stonde in gret aduersite;
For los of good by casuel negligence,
In al such caas do thy dilligence
Them to restoore, to wisse hem, and to Reede,
Geyn worldly trouble and feendys violence,
Supporte alle tho that calle the in ther neede.
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