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Undrentide Lyrics
Befell so in the comessing of May, It happened like this in early
May,
When mirry and hot is the day When balmy and temperate is the
day,
(And) oway beth winter shours And winter showers have gone
away,
And every feld is full of flours And every field is full of
flowers,
And blosme breme on evry bough And every branch is bright
with blossom,
Overall wexeth mirry anough, And everything is growing
merrily,
This ich quene Dame Heurodis This same queen, Dame
Heurodis
Took two maidens of pris Took two virgins - highly prized
-
And went in an undrentide And all went together in the
noontide
To play by an orchard side, To play and sport by an orchard.
s side;
To see the floures sprede and spring To see the flowers
unfurl, and spring
(And) to here the fowles sing. Forth from the
earth, and to hear the birds sing.
They set hem down all three They
sat them down, all three,
Under a faire impe-tree, Under a grafted
fairy-tree,
And wel sone this faire quene And soon the lovely
Queen
Fell on slepe opon the grene. Fell asleep upon the
green.
The maidens durst hir nought awake To wake her up, the maidens
dared not do.
Bot lete hir ligge and rest take. They let her lie and
take her rest
(So) she slepe till after none, And so she slept til
noontide passed -
That undrentide was all ydone Until that midday was
over at last.
(That undrentide was all ydone) Until that midday was
over at last.
Ac as sone (as) she gan awake But as soon as she
started awake
She cried and lothly bere gan make; She cried aloud
with a hateful wailing
She froted hir honden and hir feet Wringing
her hands, and her feet
And cracched hir visage, it blede weet; And
clawing her face until it was wet with blood;
Hir riche robe hie all
to-rett She tore her rich robe into shreds
And was reveyd out of hir
wit. And was driven out of her mind in grieving.
The two maidens hir
beside Her two attendant virgins
No durst with hir no leng
abide, Dared not stay longer at her side,
Bot urn to the palais full
right But they raced to the palace
And tolde bothe squier and
knight And told the knights and squires
That her quene awede
wold, That the Queen was on the brink of madness,
And bad hem go and
hir athold. And told them to go and restrain her.
Knightes urn and
levedis also, The knights, and the ladies too,
Damisels sexty and
mo. And the damsels (sixty or more) ran to the Queen.
In they orchard
to the quene hie come They reached her, at the orchard,
And hir up in
her armes nome And took her up in their arms.
And brought hir to bed
atte last They bore her to her bed
And held hir there fine
fast And bound her tightly there -
Ac ever she held in o cry But
she kept on crying out the same thing,
And wolde up and owy. That she
wanted to be up and away.
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