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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.
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[88. A Prayer of Penitence to God Almighty. B.]

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[49. Dialogue between Our Lady and Jesus. B.]

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B. B.M. MS. Royal 12 E. 1.

‘Stond wel, moder, vnder rode,
bihold þi child wyth glade mode,
blyþe moder mittu ben.’
‘Svne, quu may bliþe stonden?
hi se þin feet, hi se þin honden,
nayled to þe harde tre.’
‘Moder, do wey þi wepinge;
hi þole þis ded for mannes thinge—
for owen gilte þoli non.’
‘Svne, hi fele þe dede stunde,
þe swerd is at min herte grunde,
þat me byhytte symeon.’
‘Moder, reu vpon þi bern!
þu wasse awey þo blodi teren,
it don me werse þan mi ded.’
‘Sune, hu mitti teres wernen?
hy se þo blodi flodes hernen
huth of þin herte to min fet.’
90

‘Moder, nu y may þe seyn,
bettere is þat ic one deye
þan al man-kyn to helle go.’
‘Sune, y se þi bodi swngen,
þi brest, þin hond, þi fot þur-stungen—
no selli þou me be wo.’
‘Moder, if y dar þe tellen,
yif y ne deye þu gost to helle;
hi þole þis ded for þine sake.’
‘Sune, þu best me so minde,
with me nout; it is mi kinde
þat y for þe sorye make.’
‘Moder, merci! let me deyen,
for adam ut of helle beyn,
and al mankin þat is for-loren.’
‘Sune, wat sal me to rede?
þi pine pined me to dede,
let me deyn þe bi-foren.’
‘Moder, mitarst þu mith leren
wat pine þolen þat childre beren
wat sorwe hauen þat child for-gon.’
‘Sune, y wot y kan þe tellen,
bute it be þe pine of helle
more sorwe ne woth y non.’
‘Moder, reu of moder kare!
nu þu wost of moder fare,
þou þu be clene mayden m[an].’
‘Sune, help alle at nede,
alle þo þat to me greden—
m[ay]den, wyf and fol wyman.’
91

‘Moder, y may no [lenger] duellen,
þe time is cumen y fare to helle,
þe [þridde day] y rise upon.’
‘Sune, y wyle wi'the funden,
y [deye ywis] of þine wnden,
so reuful ded was neue[re non].’
[When] he ros þan fel þi sorwe,
þe blisse spr[ong þe þridde morewe],
wen bliþe moder wer þu þo.
Mod[er, for þat ilke blisse],
bisech vre god, vre sinnes lesse,
þu be hure chel ayen hure fo.
Blisced be þu, quen of heuene,
bring us ut of helle leuene
þurth þi dere sunes mith.
Moder, for þat hithe blode
þat he sadde vpon þe rode,
led us in-to heuene lith.
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