Prayer to the Virgin Mary, in a prose miracles of the Virgin Mary — eight
12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) including refrain, ‘Mater
misericordie’
Subjects: Virgin Mary, prayers to; prayers, to Virgin Mary
Versification: —
twelve-line —
ababababbcbc
1.Source: Leeds, Leeds University Library Brotherton 501 [olim Horton Hold Hall, Maggs Bros. Sale Cat. No. 580, Item
450], ff. 89
v-90
First Lines:O þou my brothyr haue in thy mende
how thy flesh and thy blood
ys ordeynd
to be in heuyn above all angelys clere…
Last Lines:…For y was ordeynd or y was oght
to be mater
misericordie
Note: Verses partly prosified.
Attributed Title: Here begynnyth a lytyl matyr of the gloryous virgyne oure lady seynt marye
whiche for al senful ys mene to hyr sone ihesu that wurshepith here wyth ony
preyer or orysoun as yt folwyth here (f. 89v)
Editions: Pickering, Oliver S.
“A Middle English Prose Miracle of the Virgin, with Hidden
Verse.”
Medium Ævum
57 (1988): 219-39: 231-4.