Nou Goth Sonne under Wode

Nou Goth Sonne under Wode

Original Text
Bodleian Library MS. Arch. Selden supra 74, fol. 55v. Carleton Brown, ed., English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932): no. 1, pp. 1, 165-66.
2Me reweth, Marie, thi faire rode.
3Nou goth sonne under tre.
4Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.

Notes

1] Translated into modern English:
Now the sun sets behind the forest.
Mary, I pity your lovely face.
Now sets the sun under the cross.
Mary, I pity your son and you.
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Publication Start Year
1932
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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