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Mary Maiden Mother mild / That blissful Bairn in bosom bear
Maiden Mary and her Fleur-de-Lys — seventeen 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, with refrain, ‘þe fflourdelys’
Title(s): Maiden Mary and her Fleur-de-Lys
Subjects: Virgin Mary
Versification: — eight-line — ababbcbc



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], f. 410vb-410vc
First Lines:
MArie Mayden Moder Mylde
Þat blisful Bern in bosum beere…
Last Lines:
…Heuene blisse þat we may wynne
And wone þer wiþ þi fflourdelys
Facsimiles:
Doyle, I. A., ed. The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. poet.a.1, with an introduction by A. I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.
Scase, Wendy, and Nick Kennedy, eds. A facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011.
Editions:
Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript, Part 2. EETS o.s. 117 (1901; repr. 1973): 711-15.
Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. Religious Lyrics of the XIV Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1924. 2nd ed., rev.: G. V. Smithers, Oxford, 1952: 181-5.
2.Source: London, British Library Addit. 22283 [Simeon], f. 132rb-132rc
First Lines:
MArie mayden moder myld
Þat blisful bern in bosum beere…
Last Lines:
…Heue blisse þat we may wynne
And wone þer wiþ þi flourdelys
Facsimiles:
Digital Facsimile of British Library MS Add. 22283 (‘Simeon’). 2014; http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22283.