Nou Goth Sonne under Wode

Anonymous, (1100 - 2010)

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.

1Nou goth sonne under wode.

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

Rhyme

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