Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 1 EARTH UPON EARTH (From The Harley Lyrics (1964) )
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 1 EARTH UPON EARTH (From The Harley Lyrics (1964) )
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 1 EARTH UPON EARTH (From The Harley Lyrics (1964) )
, 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 1 EARTH UPON EARTH [from
The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 2 THE THREE FOES OF MAN
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 3 ANNOT AND JOHN [from The
Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 4 ALYSOUN [from The Harley
Lyrics (1964)]
Bytuene Mersh ant Aueril
when spray biginneþ to springe,
þe lutel foul haþ hire wyl
on hyre lud to synge.
Ich libbe in loue-longinge
for semlokest of alle þynge;
he may me blisse bringe;
icham in hire baundoun.
An hendi, &c.
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 5 THE LOVER'S COMPLAINT
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 6 THE POET'S REPENTANCE
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 7 THE FAIR MAID OF
RIBBLESDALE [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 8 THE MEETING IN THE
WOOD [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 10 THE LABOURERS IN THE
VINEYARD [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 11 SPRING [from The Harley
Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 12 ADVICE TO WOMEN [from
The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 13 AN OLD MAN'S PRAYER
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Amen.
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 14 BLOW, NORTHERNE WYND
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Blow, &c.
Blou, &c.
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 15 SUETE IESU, KING OF
BLYSSE [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 16 IESU CRIST, HEOUENE
KYNG [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 18 A SPRING SONG ON THE
PASSION [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Amen.
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 19 DUM LUDIS FLORIBUS
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 20 DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE
VIRGIN AND CHRIST ON THE CROSS [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Amen.
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 21 IESU, FOR ÞI MUCHELE
MIHT [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 22 I SYKE WHEN Y SINGE
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
He 3 e vpon a doune,
þer al folk hit se may,
a mile from vch toune,
aboute þe midday,
þe rode is vp arered,
his frendes aren afered,
ant clyngeþ so þe clay.
Þe rode stond in stone;
Marie stont hire one,
ant seiþ 'Weylaway!'
When y þe biholde
wiþ ey 3 en bryhte bo
ant þi bodi colde---
þi ble waxeþ blo,
þou hengest al of blode
so he 3 e vpon þe rode,
bituene þeues tuo---
who may syke more?
Marie wepeþ sore
ant siht al þis wo.
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 23 AN AUTUMN SONG [from
The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
Nou skrinkeþ rose ant lylie-flour
þat whilen ber þat suete sauour
in somer, þat suete tyde;
ne is no quene so stark ne stour
ne no leuedy so bryht in bour
þat ded ne shal by glyde.
Whose wol fleysh lust forgon
ant heuene blis abyde,
on Iesu be is þoht anon,
þat þerled was ys side.
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Amen.
'Do wey, þou clerc, þou art a fol, wiþ þe bydde y noht chyde;
shalt þou neuer lyue þat day mi loue þat þou shalt byde.
3 ef þou in my boure art take, shame þe may bityde;
þe is bettere on fote gon þen wycked hors to ryde.'
'Be stille, þou fol, y calle þe riht; cost þou neuer blynne?
Þou art wayted day ant nyht wiþ fader ant al my kynne.
Be þou in mi bour ytake, lete þey for no synne
me to holde ant þe to slon, þe deþ so þou maht wynne!'
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 26 BLESSED BE ÞOU, LEUEDY
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 27 THE FIVE JOYS OF THE
VIRGIN [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
Ase y me rod þis ender day
by grene wode to seche play,
mid herte y þohte al on a may,
suetest of alle þinge.
Lyþe, ant ich ou telle may
al of þat suete þinge.
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Amen.
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for loue of þine childe
me mene 3 de tresoun.
Ich wes wod ant wilde,
ore su en prisoun.
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 29 GOD, ÞAT AL ÞIS MYHTES
MAY [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Al vnreken ys my ro,
Louerd Crist, whet shal y say?
Of myne deden fynde y non fro,
ne noþyng þat y þenke may.
Vnwrþ icham to come þe to,
y serue þe nouþer nyht ne day.
In þy merci y me do,
God, þat al þis myhtes may.
Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 30 THE MAN IN THE MOON
[from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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Anon., 1100-1500 (Middle English Lyrics and Ballads) : 32 THE WAY OF WOMAN'S
LOVE [from The Harley Lyrics (1964)]
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