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The poems of John Audelay

Edited with introduction, notes and glossary [by Ella Keats Whiting]
Audelay, John

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Audite hec, omnes gentes: hanc epistolam scripsit Dominus Ihesus Christus manibus suis et misit in siuitatem Gazon vbi ego Petrus primum episcopatum accepi.
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In die epephanis &c.
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Alia oracio de sancta Maria virgine.

Haile! þe fayrst þer euer God fond,
Haile! maid and moder, haile! mayd fre,
Hayle! þe floure of Iosep wand,
Hayle! þe froyte of Iesse,
Hayle! blossum þat our bale vnbonde,
Haile! mans bot was borne of þe;
Haile! our beleue in þe can stonde
Whan Crist was raȝt on rode tre;
Hayle! rose on ryse, haile! lelle,
Hayle! swet, swettist of sauore,
Hayle! hyȝ princes of pete,
Haile! blessid froyt, haile! swet floure.
Haile! tabirnakil þe trewþ con tyelde,
Haile! garden þer grace gan spryng,
Haile! scheltyrne schours to schyelde,
Hayle! bryȝtnes euer chynyng,
Haile! ȝonkeþ þat neuer schal ȝilde,
Haile! beute euer duryng,
Haile! þi Barne in blis þi boure cun bilde,
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Haile! grace and goodnes euer growyng,
Haile! fresche and no fadyng,
Haile! of charite þe paramour,
Haile! loue, haile! leche, haile! hie kyng,
Haile! blessid froyt, haile! swet flour.
Haile! praȝerys of þe postilis alle,
Haile! þe martyrs gladenes,
Hayle! comford confessours on to calle,
Haile! of vergyns þe clennes,
Haile! þe sun þat euer chyne schale,
Haile! maide of worchip makeles,
Haile! of worþenes þe walle,
Haile! perseuerens of holenes,
Haile! moder to þe norcheles,
Haile! to þe synful mon socore,
Haile! moder to þe helples,
Haile! blest froyt, ayle! swete flour.
Haile! quene of heuen ryche blis,
Haile! lade of þis worde wide,
Haile! of hel þe hy emperes,
Haile! fallere of þe fyndis pryde,
Haile! þe ioy of paradise,
Þi wil schal neuer be denyed.
Haile! angelis done þe seruyse,
Haile! perre patrearkis to gyde,
Haile! dissire prestis to abyde,
Haile! silour of our Saueour,
Haile! pardun þroȝ whom our pes is criud,
Haile! blessid froyt, haile! swete flour.
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Haile! solans to ham þat bene sory,
Haile! to ertekes a waiful [w]iyȝt,
Haile! help to hom þat ben gulte,
Haile! hope to þayme þat grace is dyȝt,
Hale! wel of worchip and merce,
Haile! þi pete on vs þou pyȝt;
Haile! þou bildist ful besele,
To al þat leuen here in þi myȝt.
Haile! bussche, hayl! blase brenyng bryȝt,
Ȝet was not blemyschid þi colour,
Haile! berel þe blynd to lyȝt,
Haile! blest froyte, haile! swete flour.
Ryȝt as þe lele is freschist in hew,
Haile! beute passeþ as maydyns clene,
Haile! so vergyn, vertu and trew,
Þou worchipist alle þat euer han bene.
Haile! þe olde law and þe new
Opon þiselue hit was sene;
Was neuer bot ȝe þat monkynd knew
To bere a child, and maide clene.
Haile! dey-stere, haile! sauer chene,
Haile! diamand delycious of odour,
Haile! ryal rebe, haile! crownyd quene,
Haile! blessid froyt, haile! swete floure.
Haile! onex, haile! olif, h[aile]! vyne vertuys,
Haile! þe rose without þorne,
Haile! gresse on grownd most gloreous,
Haile! bryȝtter þen sun on somyr morowe,
Haile! gude gladle, haile! gracious,
Haile! hert þat with a swerd was chorne,
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Haile! Ioseps wyf, haile! Ioseps spous,
Haile! þi breder þou hast e-borene,
Was neuer non seche beforen;
Moder and maid ys to honour,
Haile! helpe to hom þat were forelorne,
Haile! blist froyt, haile! swet floure.
Haile! chif chosyn charbokil stone,
Haile! ryal rygal þi reme to lyȝt,
Haile! aþamond þat God and mon
Þou drew into þi blessid bode bryȝt;
Haile! lyȝter of lymbo were neuer sun chone,
Bot darker þen þe myrke mydnyȝt,
Haile! glader of Adam and mone mo
Þat to damnacion þai were dyȝt;
V þousand ȝere þai se neuer syȝt,
Lyyng in longyng in here langure,
Abydyng þi grace, þi mekil myȝt;
Haile! blest froyt, haile! swet flour.
Þus haile to þe! þi Sun to send,
With haile! myȝtfulst of grace,
Þis word hit may not comprehend,
Fore of þi body borne He was.
Haile! medycyne þat ale may mend,
Haile! keuer in euere case,
Haile! tapere þat euer is tent,
Haile! lamp lyȝtand in euere place,
Hayle! most fayryst of fygure and face,
Haile! tabyrnakil of heuen toure,
Hayle! moder of merce withouton manse,
Hayle! blessid froyt, hayl! swete floure.
Þese halowne al þe sayntis in heuen,
Angelis, patrearchis, and prophet,
Þe postilis al with marters steuen,
Þe confessours with vergyns swete;
Al þat was made in days vij;
Vs aȝt þe loue, loue of grete;
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When hellis and dalis þai schal be euen,
Þer bode and soule in-fere schal met,
When Ihesu schal schew his wondis wete,
Mare, þou be our mayne paroure,
With þese sayntis to haue a sete,
Her haile! blest froyte, haile! swete flour.
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