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English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century


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 1. 
1. Sunset on Calvary.
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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.
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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.
 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.
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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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49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus on the Cross. [A.]

Chauncoun de noustre dame.

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A. MS. Digby 86.

‘Stond wel, moder, ounder rode,
Bihold þi child wiþ glade mode,
Moder bliþe miȝt þou be.’
‘Sone, hou may ich bliþe stonde?
Ich se þine fet and þine honde
I-nayled to þe harde tre.’
‘Moder, do wey þi we-pinge;
Ich þolie deþ for monnes kuinde—
Wor mine gultes ne þolie I non.’
‘Sone, ich fele þe deþes stounde;
Þat swerd is at min herte grounde,
Þat me by-heyte simeon.’
88

‘Moder, do wei þine teres,
Þou wip awey þe blodi teres,
Hy doþ me worse þene mi deþ.’
‘Sone, hou miȝtte ich teres werne?
I se þine blodi woundes herne
From þin herte to þi fot.’
‘Moder, nou I may þe seye,
Betere is þat ich one deye,
Þen alle monkun to helle go.’
‘Sone, I se þi bodi I-swonge,
Þine honde, þine fet, þi bodi I-stounge;
Hit nis no wonder þey me be wo.’
‘Moder, if ich þe dourste telle,
If ich ne deye þou gost to helle;
I þolie deþ for monnes sake.’
‘Sone, þou me bi-hest so milde;
I-comen hit is of monnes kuinde
Þat ich sike and serewe make.’
‘Moder, merci, let me deye
And adam out of helle beye,
And monkun þat is forlore.’
‘Sone, wat sal me þe stounde?
Þine pinen me bringeþ to þe grounde,
Let me dey þe bifore.’
‘Swete moder, nou þou fondest
Of mi pine, þer þou stondest;
Wiþ-houte mi pine nere no mon.’
‘Sone, I wot I may þe telle,
Bote hit be þe pine of helle,
Of more pine ne wot I non.’
89

‘Moder, of moder þus I fare.
Nou þou wost wimmanes kare,
Þou art clene mayden on.’
‘Sone, þou helpest alle nede,
Alle þo þat to þe wille grede,
May and wif and fowel wimmon.’
‘Moder, I ne may no lengore dwelle,
Þe time is comen I go to helle;
I þolie þis for þine sake.’
‘Sone, I-wis I wille founde,
I deye almest, I falle to grounde,
So serwful deþ nes never non.’
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