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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.’
 4. 
[4. Stabat iuxta Christi Crucem.]
 5. 
5. A Prisoner's Prayer.
 6. 
6. ‘Sumer Is Icumen In.’
 7. 
7. Now Comes the Blast of Winter.
 8. 
8. I Walk with Sorrow.
 9. 
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.
 38. 
38. Over the Bier of the Worldling.
 39. 
39. Will and Wit.
 40. 
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.
 45. 
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.
 62. 
62. Now Springs the Spray.
 63. 
63. A Spring Song of Love to Jesus.
 64. 
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.
 88. 
[88. A Prayer of Penitence to God Almighty. B.]

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28b. Doomsday.

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B. Cotton MS. Caligula A ix.

Hþenne ich þenche of domes-dai Ful sore i me adrede,
Þer schal after his [werk] euch mon fongen mede.
Ich habbe crist agult þid þoȝtes & þið dede;
Lauerd crist, godes sone, þat is me to rede?
Þat fur schal kumen in þis þorld On one suneniȝte,
For-bernen al þis middelerd so crist hit þolde diȝte,
Boþe in þe þater & in þat lond þe flures þat beoþ brihte—
Iherd beo þu lauerd, so muchel beþ þine mihte.
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Þe engles in þe dai-red bleþeð heore beme,
Þenne comeþ ure lauerd crist his domes for to deme.
Ne helpeð hit noht þenne to þepen ne to remen,
Þat haueð lutel idon þat godd þere icþeme.
From þat adam þas ischapen to comen domes-dai
Moni of þisse riche þat þereden foh & grei,
An rideþ uppe stede & uppen palefrai,
Heo schulen atte dome suggen þeilaþei.
Ne schulen heo noþðer fiȝte mid schelde ne mid spere,
Mid helme ne mid brunie ne mid non oþer gere;
Ne schal þer nomon oþer mid þise þordes þere,
Bute heore almesdede heore ernde schal bere.
Heo schulen iseon þe lauedi þat ihesu crist of-kende,
Bi-tþeonen hire armes sþeteliche he þende.
Þe wile þat þe mihte, to litte þe hire sende;
Þat makede þe cþed, so fule he us blende.
Heo schul iseon þene king þat al þis þorld þrohte,
An uppon þe rode Mid stronge pine abohte
Adam & his ofspring, in helle he heom sohte—
To bidden his milce to late þe beod bi-þohte.
Þer stondeþ þe riȝtþise on his riȝt honde,
An þe sunfule so ateliche heo stondeþ
Mid heore sunnen iþriten, þat is so muchel schonde.
Þer hit schulen alle iseon al þat her þeren a londe.
Þið þe riȝtþise he spekeþ wordes swete:
‘Comeþ her, mine freond, oure sunnes forto lete.
In mine fader boure oþ is imaked sete,
Þer oþ schulen engles ful sþeteliche grete.’
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Þið þe sunfule also ȝe mahen ihere:
‘Goð, aþariede gostes, feondes ifere,
In-to berninde fur; of blisse ȝe beoþ skere
For ȝe oþre sunnen of þisse þorlde bere.’
Bidde þe ure lauedi, sþetest alre þinge,
Þat heo ure erende beore to þen heuonkinge,
For his holi nome & for hire herendinge,
Þat heo ure saþle to heouerige bringe.
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