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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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55. A Prayer to the Mother of Mildness.

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B.M. MS. Egerton 613.

[I] blessed beo þu, lauedi, ful of houene Blisse,
sþete flur of parais, moder of mildernisse.
Þu praie ihesu crist þi sone, þat he me i-þisse
þare a-lond al sþo ihc beo, þat he me ne i-misse.
Of þe, faire lauedi, min oreisun ich þile bi-ginnen,
Þi deore sþete sunnes loue þu lere me to þinnen.
þel ofte ich sike and sorþe make, ne mai ich neuere blinnen
bote þu, þruh þin milde mod, bringe me out of sunne.
112

Ofte ihc seke merci, þin sþete name ich calle,
mi flehs is foul, þis þorld is fals, þu loke þat ich ne falle.
Lauedi freo, þu schild me fram þe pine of helle,
And send me in-to þat blisse þat tunge ne mai tellen.
Mine þerkes, lauedi, heo makieþ me ful þon;
þel ofte ich clepie and calle, þu iher me forþan!
Bote ic chabbe þe help of þe, oþer i ne kan,
help þu me! ful þel þu mist, þu helpest mani a man.
Iblessed beo þu, lauedi, so fair and so briht,
Al min hope is uppon þe, bi dai and bi nicht.
Helpe þruh þin milde mod, for þel þu mist,
þat ich neuere for feondes sake fur-go þin eche liht.
Briht and scene quen of houene, ich bidde þin sunnes hore.
Þe sunnes þat ich habbe i-cvn, heo reþþeþ me ful sore;
þel ofte ich-chabbe þe fur-saken; þilich neuer eft more,
Lauedi for þine sake, treuþen feondes lore.
Iblessed beo þu, lauedi so feir and so hende;
þu praie ihesu crist þi sone, þat he me i-sende,
Þhare a-lond alsþo ich beo er ich honne þende,
þat ich mote in parais þonien þi-þuten ende.
Bricht and scene quen of storre, so me liht and lere,
in þis false fikele þorld so me led and steore,
Þat ich at min ende-dai ne habbe non feond to fere.
ihesu, mit ti sþete blod þu bohtest me ful deore.
113

Ihesu, seinte marie sone, þu i-her þin moder bone!
to þe ne dar i clepien noht, to hire ich make min mone;
þu do þat ich, for hire sake, beo imaked so clene
þat ich noht at dai of dome beo flemed of þin exsene.
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