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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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45. CRISTE QUI LUX ES ET DIES.

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[Trin. Coll. Cam. MS. R. 3. 20, pp. 195–197.]

Beholdeþe here and seeþe þe translacion of þe ympne Criste qui lux es & dies, by Lydegate in wyse of balade.
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Criste qui lux es & dies.

Cryst, þat art booþe daye and light,
And sooþefaaste sonne of al gladnesse,
Þat doost awey derknesse of night,—
And souereyne light of al brightnesse
Beleved art in soþefastenesse,
Preching þis blissful light of pees,
Be oure socour in alle distresse,
Criste qui lux es & dies.

Precamur sancte domine.

O hooly lord! to þee we praye,
In þis night þou vs defende,
Ageynst alle foon þat vs werraye,
Be þou quyete oure lyff tamende,
And þy grace to vs þou sende
With nightes reste in vnyte,
In þy servyce oure lyff to spende
Precamur sancte domine,

Ne grauis compuis irruat.

Þat vs no greuous sleep oppresse,
Ne þat oure foo vs vndermyne,
Ne þat oure flesshe of frowardnesse
Assent þe spyrit to enclyne,
For to bring it to ruyne,
Þee to gilt thorough þeyre debate,
But let þy grace on vs shyne
Ne grauis sompnis irruat.

Oculi sompnum capiantis.

Let oure eyghen rest[e] taake,
Oonly thorughe þy benigne grace,
Þat þe spirit euer awaake
Þee for to serue yche houre and space,
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And whanne oure foomen vs manace
Let þy Right hande, as þou art wont,
Defende þy servantes in yche a place,
Dum oculi sompnum capiunt.

Defensor noster aspice.

Oure Chaumpyoun see and byhoolde,
Oure wayting enemys þou represse,
Gouverne þy servantes yonge and olde
Of þy mercy and þy goodnesse,
Whome þou boughtest in gret distresse
With þyne hooly bloode moost free,
And þat þe feonde vs nought oppresse
Defensor noster aspice.

Memento nostri domine.

Þou benigne lord! on vs remembre
In þis greuous body heere,
Keepe and preserue vs euery membre,
Sith þou boughtest vs so deere,
Which art defence, as bookis leere,
Of þe soule thorughe þe pytee,
For which in mescheef booþe fer and neere
Memento nostri domine.

Deo patri sit gloria.

To God þe Fader honnour and glorye,
And to his oonly sone also;
Worship, with hert and hool memorye,
Eeke to þe Hooly Goost beo doo,
Egale with þe first[e] twoo,
Booþe three and oon per secula,
For which we sing in Ioye and woo
Deo patri sit gloria.
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