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2. Litany in verse (no break): Saluum fac regem domine . . 8 5
Kyryeleyson Xpeleyson
Pater de celys deus to the we crye.
Devoutly seythe alle that bene here
Saluum etc. C. Brown, 1131.
3. Prayer in old age ......... 10
All the trespace of my tender youthe
Wyth greuous gyltes rekened of yonge age
Thy blode thy passyon graunt me for a sygne
Mercyfull ihesu to patyse my passage.
No. 98 in McCracken’s list (p. xxiv). Text, p. 20. C. Brown,
143-
4. Goode counselle. (Three stanzas without the Envoy) . . 10 b
Fie fro the prees. By Chaucer: ed. Skeat, I. 390.
5. Steadfastness. (Four stanzas) . ...... 11
Sum tyme thys world was so stedfast and stabyl...
And dryve thy peple ageyne to stedfastnesse
These baladdys were sent to the kynge.
Chaucer, Skeat, 1. 394.
6. TotheVirgin. (Fivejoys.) McCracken, l.c. p. 284. C. Brown,
1719 .. 11
Qvene of hevene and of helle emperesse...
On crystes passyon and on hyre joyes fyve.
(Optima oratio.)
D. d. omnip. ben(e)dictus sis tu qui me creasti . . . 13
—nisi unicum verbum ad te silicet Miserere etc.
(The same in English verse.)
Lorde allemyghty blessud thu be (C. Brown, 1528)
That hast me formed and redemyd
And graunt that nevyre hereafter y do amysse.
7. Life of the Virgin. (See no. 68 in McCracken’s list, p. xx.
C. Brown, 1585.) ........ 13
Thys boke was compyled by Jhon lydegate monke of burye at
excytacyoun of kyng harry the vthe yn honowre of oure lady
dyvyded and chaptred aftyr thys table furst a prologge.
Capitula of the four books . . . . . . . 13 b
Primus liber prologus ........ 14 b
O thow heuyfull («Z. thoujtful) hert plunged yn dystresse
Text. A ffloure of vertu ful longe kept yn cloos . . . 15 b
Lib. II. 28 b. The hand changes to a smaller and fairer one on
49 in c. xvi.
Lib. in. 55, iv. 75.
Ending 99 b : To kepe and saue from all aduersyte. Amen.
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2. Litany in verse (no break): Saluum fac regem domine . . 8 5
Kyryeleyson Xpeleyson
Pater de celys deus to the we crye.
Devoutly seythe alle that bene here
Saluum etc. C. Brown, 1131.
3. Prayer in old age ......... 10
All the trespace of my tender youthe
Wyth greuous gyltes rekened of yonge age
Thy blode thy passyon graunt me for a sygne
Mercyfull ihesu to patyse my passage.
No. 98 in McCracken’s list (p. xxiv). Text, p. 20. C. Brown,
143-
4. Goode counselle. (Three stanzas without the Envoy) . . 10 b
Fie fro the prees. By Chaucer: ed. Skeat, I. 390.
5. Steadfastness. (Four stanzas) . ...... 11
Sum tyme thys world was so stedfast and stabyl...
And dryve thy peple ageyne to stedfastnesse
These baladdys were sent to the kynge.
Chaucer, Skeat, 1. 394.
6. TotheVirgin. (Fivejoys.) McCracken, l.c. p. 284. C. Brown,
1719 .. 11
Qvene of hevene and of helle emperesse...
On crystes passyon and on hyre joyes fyve.
(Optima oratio.)
D. d. omnip. ben(e)dictus sis tu qui me creasti . . . 13
—nisi unicum verbum ad te silicet Miserere etc.
(The same in English verse.)
Lorde allemyghty blessud thu be (C. Brown, 1528)
That hast me formed and redemyd
And graunt that nevyre hereafter y do amysse.
7. Life of the Virgin. (See no. 68 in McCracken’s list, p. xx.
C. Brown, 1585.) ........ 13
Thys boke was compyled by Jhon lydegate monke of burye at
excytacyoun of kyng harry the vthe yn honowre of oure lady
dyvyded and chaptred aftyr thys table furst a prologge.
Capitula of the four books . . . . . . . 13 b
Primus liber prologus ........ 14 b
O thow heuyfull («Z. thoujtful) hert plunged yn dystresse
Text. A ffloure of vertu ful longe kept yn cloos . . . 15 b
Lib. II. 28 b. The hand changes to a smaller and fairer one on
49 in c. xvi.
Lib. in. 55, iv. 75.
Ending 99 b : To kepe and saue from all aduersyte. Amen.