Sunday, 8 December 2024

Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception

Mary Modur of grace we cry to þe,
Moder of mercy and of pyte,
Put vs fro be Fendes fondyng,
And helpe vs at oure last endyng;
And to þi Sone oure pes þou make
þat He on vs no wreke take.
To ȝow I cri wyth mylde steuen,
All þe halowes þat are in Heuen,
Helpe or Criste my gylth forgyue,
And will Hym serue will I lyue.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ‘Popular Prayers in Middle English Verse’, Modern Philology, 36.4 (1939), 337-50 (p. 345) [Caius Camb. 71, fol. 17b].