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The Worlds of the Renaissance Projects, 2000

Anachronisms: Voices of the Renaissance and Today

and the Annunciation; Medieval Devotional Lyric

 

The Annunciation Triptych, Robert Campin, Netherlandish, about 1375-1444.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Cloisters Collection.

Middle English Devotional Lyrics
The Annunciation

I syng of a mayden
That is makeles:
Kyng of alle kynges
To here sone che ches.

He cam also stylle
Ther his moder was
As dew in Aprylle
That fallyt on the gras.

He cam also stylle
To his moderes bowr
As dew in Aprille
That fallyt on the flour.

He cam also stylle
Ther his moder lay
As dew in Aprille
That fallyt on the spray.

Moder and mayden
Was never non but che;
Wel may swych a lady
Godes moder be.