The York Cycle, Play 47A
Coronation of Our Lady
[Fragment included at the end of the manuscript]
Inholders

001     Jesu. Hayle, fulgent Phebus and fader eternall,
002     Parfite plasmator and God omnipotent,
003     Be whos will and power perpetuall
004     All thinges hath influence and beyng verament.
005     To the I giffe louyng and laude right excellent,
006     And to the sperite also, graunter of all grace,
007     Whilke by thi woorde and thi warke omnipotent
008     I am thi sonne and equale in that case.
009     O sapor suauitatis, o succour and solace,
010     O life eternall and luffer of chastit·
011     Whome aungels abowne and the erthe in his grete space
012     And all thinges create loues in magest·
013     Remembre, fader meke, in thi solempnyt·
014     The woundes of thi sonne, whilke by thy providence
015     Þou made discende frome thyne equalit·
016     Into the wombe of Marye, be meke obedience.
017     Of a virgin inviolate for mans iniquyt·
018     Whilke for his synne stoode mekill fro thi grace,
019     Be hoole assente of thi solempnit·
020     Þou made me incarnate, and trulie man I was.
021     Wherefore too spede me here in this space,
022     Þou here me fader, hertely I the praye,
023     As for my moder truely in this case
024     Þou here thi sonne, and herk what I shall saye.
025     Me semes mysilfe it is right grete offence
026     My moder wombe in erthe sulde putrifye,
027     Sen hir flessh and myne were bothe oone in escence,
028     I had none othir bot of hir truely.
029     She is my moder to whome legem adimpleui
030     Whilke thou has ordinate as by thi prouidence.
031     Graunte me thi grace, I the beseke hertely,
032     As for the tyme of hir meke innocence,
033     In woorde ne dede thoght the neuer to offende,
034     Sho myght be assumpt, I pray thyne excellence,
035     Vnto thi troone, and so to be commende,
036     In bodye and saule euer withoutyn ende
037     With the to reyne in thyne eternyt·
038     Fro sorrowe and sadnesse synners to offende.
039     O flagraunt fader, graunte yt myght so be.

040     God. O lampe of light, o lumen eternall,
041     O coequale sonne, o verrey sapience,
042     O mediator ande meen and lyfe perpetuall,
043     In whome of derk clowedes may haue none accidence-
044     Thoue knawes right wele by thy providence
045     I haue commyt my powere generall,
046     Tibi data potestas, ande plenall influence.
047     Thou ert my sonne...