The poems of John Audelay Edited with introduction, notes and glossary [by Ella Keats Whiting] |
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 | The poems of John Audelay |  |
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Quomodo Ihesus fuit reprobatus a Iudeis.
O God, þe wyche þou woldust, Lorde,
Fore þe redempcion of þe worlde
Of Iewis to be repreuyd,
And to be betrayd of Iudas,
Of þat traytur with a cos,
Strayt boundyn and dispilid.
Fore þe redempcion of þe worlde
Of Iewis to be repreuyd,
And to be betrayd of Iudas,
Of þat traytur with a cos,
Strayt boundyn and dispilid.
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And as a lomb and ennosent,
To be lad to sacrefyce to-fore present
Of Ann and Kayface,
Of Pilate, Erod, and mone mo,
Vnsemele to be offyrd vp so,
Þat neuer didist trespace.
To be lad to sacrefyce to-fore present
Of Ann and Kayface,
Of Pilate, Erod, and mone mo,
Vnsemele to be offyrd vp so,
Þat neuer didist trespace.
And to be acusid of false witnes,
Repreuyd and scorgid with creuelnes,
And to be crownd with þorns,
And to be spit in þe face,
And to be bofet and blyndfuld, alas!
With mone schamful skorns.
Repreuyd and scorgid with creuelnes,
And to be crownd with þorns,
And to be spit in þe face,
And to be bofet and blyndfuld, alas!
With mone schamful skorns.
And to be þroullid hond and food
With charp naylus to þe rod,
And to be lift vp in þe cros,
Betwene two þeuys for to hyng.
Of aysel and gal þai propherd þe drynke;
With a spere þi hert persid was.
With charp naylus to þe rod,
And to be lift vp in þe cros,
Betwene two þeuys for to hyng.
Of aysel and gal þai propherd þe drynke;
With a spere þi hert persid was.
Be þese most hole payns, Lord,
Fore me, synful, þat þou soffyrd,
I worchip with hert and wylle.
Also, fore þe hole cros,
Delyuer my soule, Lord, fro losse,
Fro þe payns of helle.
Fore me, synful, þat þou soffyrd,
I worchip with hert and wylle.
Also, fore þe hole cros,
Delyuer my soule, Lord, fro losse,
Fro þe payns of helle.
And led me, Lord, graciously,
Synful wreche and onworþe,
Into þat some plasse
Þou ladist þe þefe hongyng þe by,
And grauntust him grace and þi mercy;
Foreȝif me my trespace.
Synful wreche and onworþe,
Into þat some plasse
Þou ladist þe þefe hongyng þe by,
And grauntust him grace and þi mercy;
Foreȝif me my trespace.
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Wele is him þat wil and may
Say þis oreson euere day
Of Cristis passion.
Out of þis word or þat he wynd,
Of al his synnus, as wretyn I fynd,
Schal haue remyssion.
Say þis oreson euere day
Of Cristis passion.
Out of þis word or þat he wynd,
Of al his synnus, as wretyn I fynd,
Schal haue remyssion.
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