Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Hymns to the Virgin & Christ, the Parliament of devils, and other religious poems.

Hail, Blessed Mary!

Lambeth MS. 853, ab. 1430 A.D., page 24.]

HEil be þou, marie, þe modir of crist, Heil þe blessidist þat euere bare child! Heil þat conceyuedist al wiþ list Þe sone of god boþe meeke & mylde! 4 ¶ Heil maide sweete þat neuere was filid! Heil welle and witt of al wijsdome! Heil þou flour! heil fairest in feeld! Aue regina celorum! 8
Heil comeli queene, coumfort of care! Heil blessid lady bothe fair & briȝt! Heil þe saluour of al sore! Heil þe laumpe of lemys liȝt! 12 ¶ Heil þou blessid beerde in whom [crist] was piȝt! [page 25] Heil ioie of man bothe al and sum! Heil pinacle in heuene an hiȝt, Mater regis angelorum! 16
Heil crowned queene, fairest of alle! Heil þat alle oure blis in bradde! Heil þat alle wommen on doon calle in temynge whanne þei ben hard bistadde! 20 ¶ Heil þou þat alle feendis dredde, And schulen do til þe day of doome! With maidens mylk þi sone þou fedde, O maria, flos virginum. 24
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Title
Hymns to the Virgin & Christ, the Parliament of devils, and other religious poems.
Author
Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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Page 4
Publication
London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co.,
1867, reprinted 1895.
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English poetry
Religious poetry, English.

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