DIMEV 325
IMEV 178
NIMEV 178
All ghostly songs and hymns that be sung
John Lydgate, ‘Misericordias Domini in Eternum Cantabo’
— 24 eight-line stanzas with ‘syng’ last word of each
stanza
Author(s): John Lydgate
Title(s): ‘Misericordias Domini in Eternum Cantabo’
Subjects: mercy, songs of; God, praise to
Versification: —
eight-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Jesus College Q.G.8 (56), ff. 41-44
First Lines:[A]ll goostly songes and ympnes þat be sunge
Of olde and newe
remembrid in scripture…
Last Lines:…In feith hope and Charite stable as a stoon
Eternally þi
mercies þei do syng
Attributed Title: Misericordias domini in eternum cantabo (f. 41)
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.21 (601), ff. 193
v-196
First Lines:All gostly songys and hympnes þat be song
Of olde and new
remembryd in scrypture
Heuynly symball or bellys that be rong
To prayse
the lord by musyk or mesure…
Last Lines:…In feythe hope & Charyte stable as a stone
Eternally thy
mercyes they do syng
Attributed Author: John Lydgate (added by later hand, ff. 193v, 196)
Attributed Title: On Psalmody (added by later hand, 193v)
3.Source: London, British Library Harley 2255, ff. 17-21
First Lines:Alle goostly songis & ympnes that be songe
Of Oold and newe
remembrid in Scripture…
Last Lines:…In feith hoope and Charite stable as a stoon
Eternally thy
mercyes they do syng
Attributed Author: Explicit quod lidgate (f. 21, in margin)
Attributed Title: Misericordias domini in eternum cantabo (f. 17, in rubric)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems.
EETS
e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 71-7.