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English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century


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 1. 
1. Sunset on Calvary.
 2. 
2. Penitence for Wasted Life.
 3. 
3. ‘On God Ureisun of Ure Lefdi.’
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[4. Stabat iuxta Christi Crucem.]
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5. A Prisoner's Prayer.
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6. ‘Sumer Is Icumen In.’
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7. Now Comes the Blast of Winter.
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8. I Walk with Sorrow.
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9. Love's Madness.
 10A. 
10. Death's Wither-Clench. [A.]
 10B. 
[10. Death's Wither-Clench. B.]
 11A. 
11. Three Sorrowful Tidings. [A.]
 11B. 
[11. Three Sorrowful Tidings. B.]
 12A. 
12. Three Sorrowful Things. [A.]
 12B. 
[12. Three Sorrowful Things. B.]
 13. 
13. Memorare Novissima Tua.
 14. 
14. A Warning to Sir Eode.
 15. 
15. A Prayer to the Redeemer.
 16. 
16. Mater Salutaris.
 17A. 
17. Of One That Is So Fair and Bright. [A.]
 17B. 
[17. Of One That Is So Fair and Bright. B.]
 18. 
18. A Prayer of the Five Joys.
 19. 
19. The Lily with Five Leaves.
 20. 
20. Shroud and Grave.
 21A. 
21. Tell Me, Wight in the Broom. [A.]
 21B. 
[21. Tell Me, Wight in the Broom. B.]
 22. 
22. Gaude Virgo Mater Christi.
 23. 
23. The Ten Commandments.
 24. 
24. A Light Is Come to the World.
 25. 
25. The Bargain of Judas.
 26. 
26. The Journey of the Three Kings.
 27. 
27. Look on Me with Thy Sweet Eyes.
 28a. 
28a. Doomsday.
 28b. 
28b. Doomsday.
 29. 
29. The Latemest Day. [A.]
 29. 
[29. The Latemest Day. B.]
 30. 
30. When the Turf is Thy Tower.
 31. 
31. I Sing of One That is Matchless.
 32A. 
32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [A.]
 32B. 
[32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [B.]
 32C. 
[32. A Prayer of Penitence to Our Lady. [C.]
 33. 
33. Aspice Mitissime Conditor.
 34. 
34. Man's Leman on the Rood.
 35A. 
35. My Leman on the Rood. I. [A.]
 35B. 
[35. My Leman on the Rood. I. B.]
 36. 
36. My Leman on the Rood. II.
 37. 
37. My Leman on the Rood. III.
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38. Over the Bier of the Worldling.
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39. Will and Wit.
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40. Weal Is a Cursed Thing.
 41. 
41. The Five Blisses.
 42. 
42. An Antiphon of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
 43. 
43. Friar Thomas de Hales' Love Ron.
 44. 
44. Gabriel's Greeting to Our Lady.
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45. Jesus Sorrows for His Mother.
 46A. 
46. This World's Bliss Will Not Last. [A.]
 46B. 
[46. This World's Bliss Will Not Last. B.]
 47. 
47. Our Lady Sorrows for Her Son.
 48. 
48. ‘Vbi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount.’
 49A. 
49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus on the Cross. [A.]
 49B. 
[49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus. B.]
 50. 
50. ‘Swete Ihesu King of Blisse.’
 51. 
51. ‘Le Regret de Maximian.’
 52. 
52. The Thrush and the Nightingale.
 53. 
53. What Love Is Like.
 54. 
54. A Springtide Song of the Redemption.
 55. 
55. A Prayer to the Mother of Mildness.
 56A. 
56. The Mind of the Passion. [A.]
 56B. 
[56. The Mind of the Passion. B.]
 57. 
57. Be Free with What Christ Sends.
 58. 
58. World's Bliss Have Good Day.
 59. 
59. A Hymn to the Heavenly Father.
 60. 
60. A Song to the Queen of Heaven.
 61. 
61. Mother Mild, Flower of All.
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62. Now Springs the Spray.
 63. 
63. A Spring Song of Love to Jesus.
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64. A Song of Sorrow for the Passion.
 65. 
65. An Orison of Penitence to Our Lady.
 66. 
66. I Will Become a Friar.
 67. 
67. A Bidding Prayer.
 68. 
68. Our Lady Help Us at Our Ending.
 69. 
69. In Sign of Love to Man.
 70A. 
70. Decem Precepta. [A.]
 70B. 
70. Decem Precepta. B.]
 71. 
71. Proprietates Mortis.
 72. 
72. A Song of Lewes.
 73. 
73. From Earth to Earth.
 74. 
74. On the Follies of Fashion.
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[88. A Prayer of Penitence to God Almighty. B.]

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25. The Bargain of Judas.

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Trinity Coll. Camb. MS. 323.

Hit wes up-on a scereþorsday þat vre louerd aros,
ful milde were þe wordes he spec to iudas:
‘Iudas þou most to iurselem oure mete for-to bugge;
þritti platen of seluer þou bere up-o þi rugge;
Þou comest fer i þe brode stret, fer i þe brode strete,
summe of þin cunesmen þer þou meist imete.’
Imette wid is soster þe swikele wimon.
‘iudas, þou were wrþe me stende þe wid ston.
Iudas, þou were wrþe me stende þe wid ston,
for þe false prophete þat tou bileuest upon.’
‘Be stille, leue soster, þin herte þe to-breke!
wiste min louerd crist, ful wel he wolde be wreke.’
‘Iudas, go þou on þe roc, heie up-on þe ston,
lei þin heued i my barm, slep þou þe anon.’
Sone so iudas of slepe was awake,
þritte platen of seluer from hym weren itake.
He drou hym selue bi þe top þat al it lauede a-blode,
þe iewes out of iurselem awenden he were wode.
fforet hym com þe riche ieu þat heiste pilatus—
‘wolte sulle þi louerd þat heite iesus?’
‘I nul sulle my louerd for nones cunnes eiste,
bote hit be for þe þritti platen þat he me bi-taiste.’
‘Wolte sulle þi lord crist for enes cunnes golde?’
‘Nay, bote hit be for þe platen þat he habben wolde.’
In him com ur lord gon as is postles setten at mete—
‘wou sitte ye, postles, ant wi nule ye ete?
‘Wou sitte ye, postles, ant wi nule ye ete?
ic am aboust ant isold to-day for oure mete.’
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Vp stod him iudas, ‘lord am i þat [frec]?
i nas neuer o þe stude þer me þe euel spec.’
Vp him stod peter ant spec wid al is miste:
‘þau pilatus him come wid ten hundred cnistes,
Þau pilatus him come wid ten hundred cnistes,
yet ic wolde, louerd, for þi loue fiste.’
‘Stille þou be, peter, Wel i þe icnowe;
þou wolt fur-sake me þrien ar þe coc him crowe.’
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