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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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59. A Hymn to the Heavenly Father.

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Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. MS. 59.

Hit bilimpeð forte speke, to reden & to singe
Of him þe no mon mai at-reke, king of alle kinge.
He mai binde & to-breke, he mai blisse bringe,
He mai luke & unsteke, michte of alle þinge.
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Vroure & hele, folkes fader, heouenliche drichte,
Alle þing þet is & þas is on þine michte;
Þu ȝifst þe sunne to the daiȝ, þe mone to þe nichte,
þine strengþe non ne mai telle, ne þin michte.
Iherdȝe beo þin holi nome, in heouene & in eorþe;
þu sscope eld & þind & þater, þe molde is þet feorþe
Of þham þe alle imaked beoð þat is þe holi eorþe.
þu þe þost al ure þoucht, louerd, drauȝ us neor þe!
Fader & sune & holi gost, on god in þrimnesse,
inne þe nis lac ne lest, auȝ alle holinesse.
Vre neode þel þu þost & ure unkunnesse;
in þine hond is michte mest, louerd, þu vs blesce.
Let vs, louerd, comen among þin holi kineriche.
ihesu crist, þin elpi sune þe is þe seolf iliche,
he vs bouchte þið his blod of þe feondes sþiche,
& of bitter helle-fur & of þe fule smiche.
Al sþo is in heuene heȝ, in eorþe beo þin þille,
holi drichte sþete & dreȝ, in heldes & in hulle;
ne let þu neure cumen vs neȝ, þene feond þe is sþo ille,
Ach bind him honden, fet & þeȝ & let him ligge stille.
Vre daȝþunelich bred, louerd, þu vs sende
þat bred of hele & of lif, ihesu crist þe hende;
þat bréd þe monkun haueð ibroucht út of feondes bende,
he beo vre help & ure red to ure liues ende.
Fader, for-ȝif vs ure gult & eke alle ure sunne,
Al sþo þe doð þe us habbeð igruld to freomede & to kunne;
bring us ut of þorldes þo in-to alle þunne,
for her beoð þerkes sþiþe unþreste & þeþes sþiþe þunne.
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Bring us ut of þo & kare & of feondes fondinge,
þicke is here ure fare & ure þuniȝinge;
mid þicke speche & false sþare & mid lesinge,
þu ert hele & help & lif, & king of alle kinge.
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