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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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Primum gaudium.
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Secundum gaudium.
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Tercium gaudium.
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Quartum Gaudium.
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Quintum gaudium.
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Sextum Gaudium.
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Septimum Gaudium.
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Octauum Gaudium.
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Duodecimum Gaudium.
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Terciumdecium Gaudium.
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Quintumdecimum Gaudium.
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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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48. A PRAYER UPON THE CROSS.

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[MS. Laud 683, leaves 14, back, 15.]

Here crist Ihesu seith thus on-to man as he hangeth vp-on the roode tre.

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Upon the cros naylled I was ffor the,
Suffred deth to paye thy raunsoun;
Forsake thy senne for the love of me,
Be repentaunt, make pleyn confessioun,
To contrit hertis I do remyssioun:
Be nat dyspeyred, for I am nat vengable;
Geyn goostly enmyes thynk on my passioun;
Why artow froward, sith I am mercyable?

2

My bloody woundis doun raylyng by this tre,
Looke on hem well, and haue compassioun;
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The crowne of thorn, þe spere, þe nayles thre
Perced hand and ffeet of Indygnacyoun,
Myne herte reven for thy redempcyoun;
Lat us tweyne in this thyng be tretable,
Love for love by iust convencyoun!
Why artow froward sith I am mercyable?

3

I hadde on Petyr and Mawdeleyn pite
For the grete constreynt of ther contricyoun;
Geyn Thomas Indis Incredulyte,
He put his hand, depe in my syde doun;
Rolle vp this mater, grave it in þi resoun;
Sith I am kynde, why artow so onstable?
My blood, best triacle for þi transgressioun;
Be thou nat froward, sith I am mercyable.

lenvoye.

Thinke ageyn pride on myn humylyte;
Kom to scole, recorde weell this lessoun;
Geyn fals envye, thynk on my charite,
My blood al spent by dystyllacyoun;
Why did I this? to saue the from prisoun;
Afforn thyn herte hang this lytel table,
Swetter than bawme geyn al goostly poisoun,—
Be thow nat froward, sith I am mercyable.
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oracio.

Lord on alle synful, heere knelyng on ther kne,
Thy deth remembryng of humble affeccyoun,
O Iesu, graunte of thy benygnyte,
That thy fyve wellis plentyvous of foysoun,
Callid thy fyve woundis by computacioun,
May wasshe in us al surfetis reprevable.
Now, for thy modris meek mediacioun,
At hir request, be to us mercyable.
Explicit.
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