Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4308

DIMEV 4308

IMEV 2711

NIMEV 2711

Our glorious Father that art in heaven

John Lydgate, paraphrase of the Pater Noster — seven rhyme royal stanzas with Latin refrain in stanzas 1-6

Author(s): John Lydgate

Title(s): Pater Noster

Subjects: Lord’s Prayer; paraphrases

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Macaronic: Latin

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.21 (601), f. 274ra-274rb

First Lines:

oure glorious ffadyr þat art in heuene
Kepe vs þy chyldre þat þow hast wrought
Graunt vs these petycions seuene
As thy son taught þat hath vs bought…

Last Lines:

…And gracious ffadyr take no vengeaunce
Sed libera nos a malo

Note: Nine 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc including Latin eighth line, ‘O pater noster qui es in celis’ (stanzas 1-8) and ‘Sed libera nos a malo’ (stanza 9).

Attributed Author: … per dominum Iohannem lydegate translata (f. 274ra)

Attributed Title: Hic sequitur Oracio dominica per dominum Iohannem lydegate translata (f. 274ra)

Editions:

Mahir, Otto, ed. Eine religiöse Gedichte John Lydgates. Oberviechtach: Adolf Mahir, 1910: 16-18.

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. I: Religious Poems. EETS e.s. 107 (1911; repr. 1961): 18-20.

2.Source: Longleat, Marquess of Bath MS 30, ff. 24-25

First Lines:

Glorious fader þat art in heuen
kepe vs þi childer that thow has wrouȝt…

Last Lines:

…kepynge oure wittes and thy hestes ten
And gracious fader take no vengaunce
Sed libera nos a malo Amen

Note: The rubric ‘Pater noster qui es in celis’ follows every stanza but the last.

Attributed Title: Here begynneth þe Pater noster in englys (f. 24)

3.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 142 [olim Bement], ff. 20v-21

First Lines:

Glorious fader þat art in heuen
Kepe us þi childer þat þou has wrouȝt…

Last Lines:

…Kepynge oure wittes and þi hestes ten
And gracious fader take no uengeaunce
Set libera nos a malo amen

Attributed Title: Here begynneth the Pater noster in englys (f. 20v)

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED