Middle English Marian Lyrics
by: Karen Saupe (Editor)
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Annunciation
- 1 In that time, als was ful wel
- 2 From heovene into eorthe, God gretynge he sende
- 3 Gabriel, fram evene kingh
- 4 The angel to the vergyn said
- 5 Nowel el el (Mary moder, meke and mylde)
- 6 Unto Marie he that love hath (Thus seide Mary of grete honoure)
- 7 Nowel, nowel, nowel (Under a tre / In sportyng me)
- 8 Edi beo thu, hevene quene
- 9 Heyl, levedy, se-stoerre bryht
- 10 Blessed Mary, moder virginall
- 11 Hayle mayden of maydyns, thorgth worde consaywyng
- 12 Hayle, glorious lady and hevenly quene
- 13 I syng of a myden / That is makeles
- 14 At a spryng wel under a thorn
- The Nativity
- 15 Blissid be that lady bryght (Goddys Sonne is borne)
- 16 Nu this fules singet and maket hure blisse
- 17 Alleluya! (Now wel may we merthis make)
- 18 Mary so myelde of hert and myende
- 19 My Fader above, beholdying thy mekenesse
- 20 Ther is no rose of swych vertu
- 21 Holy moder, that bere Cryst
- 22 Syng we, syng we (Holy maydyn, blyssid thu be)
- 23 Lullay, myn lykyng (I saw a fayr maydyn syttyn and synge)
- 24 Ler to loven as I love thee
- 25 Lullay, lullay, la, lullay (Als I lay upon a nith)
- 26 Modyr, whyt os lyly flowr (As I up ros in a mornyng)
- 27 Lullay, my fader, lullay, my brother (Ye ben my fader)
- 28 I passud thoru a garden grene
- 29 Als I lay upon a nith / I lokede upon a stronde
- 30 Ecce quod natura mutat sua iura (Beholde and see)
- Mary at the Foot of the Cross
- 31 Quhat dollour persit our ladyis hert
- 32 Jesu Cristes milde moder
- 33 Stond wel, Moder, under rode
- 34 Suete sone, reu on me, and brest out of thi bondis
- 35 The angell sayde to thee that the fruyt off thi body sulde be blyssyde
- 36 A Son! tak hede to me whas sone thou was
- 37 Womman, Jon I take to thee (Allas, wo sal myn herte slaken?)
- 38 Nou goth sonne under wod
- 39 Sodenly afraide, half waking, half slepyng (With favoure in hir face)
- 40 Thou synfull man of resoun that walkest here up and downe
- 41 Why have ye no reuthe on my child?
- 42 Of alle women that ever were borne
- 43 O litel whyle lesteneth to me
- 44 Upon my ryght syde y me leye
- 45 M and A and R and I (It wern fowre letterys of purposy)
- 46 Mary myelde made grete mone (When fals Judas her son had solde)
- 47 I syke when y singe
- 48 Maiden and moder, cum and se
- The Assumption and Mary as Queen of Heaven
- Mary Mediatrix
- 54 I pray thee, lady, the moder of Crist
- 55 Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O moder mylde)
- 56 Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O tryclyn of the Trinité)
- 57 Sainte Marie, virgine
- 58 Ave maris stella, the sterre on the see
- 59 Marie moder, wel thee be
- 60 Thou wommon boute vere
- 61 Marie, yow quen, yow moder, yow mayden briht
- 62 Levedie, ic thonke thee
- 63 Blessed beo thu, lavedi, ful of hovene blisse (Egerton)
- 64 Blessed be thou, levedy, ful of heovene blisse (Harley 2253)
- 65 Mary, modur of grace, we cry to thee
- Penitential Poems
- The Joys of Mary
- Chansons d'Aventure and Love Quests
- Poems in Celebration of Mary
- 84 Adam lay ibowndyn, bowndyn in a bond
- 85 Swete and benygne moder and may
- 86 O hie emperice and quene celestiall
- 87 Glade us, maiden, moder milde
- 88 Marye, mayde mylde and fre
- 89 Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginall
- 90 All haile, lady, mother, and virgyn immaculate
- 91 Hale, sterne superne; hale, in eterne
- Appendices: Chaucer's Marian Lyrics
- A An ABC
- B The Proheme of The Prioresse Tale
- C Invocacio ad Mariam, from The Second Nun's Prologue
- Index of First Lines
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