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Behold what life that we rine in
Carol for the Feast of the Purification — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Reuertere reuertere / The quene of blysse & of beaute’
Subjects: Purification, feast of; carols, Purification
Versification: — four-line, two-line — aaab, ab



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. e.1 (SC 29734), ff. 38-38v
First Lines:
Behold what lyfe þat we ryne ine
ffrayl to fale & euer lyke to syne…
Last Lines:
…ffarwell þe holy epyphane
And to mary now syng we
Editions:
Wright, Thomas, ed. Songs and Carols from a manuscript…of the Fifteenth Century. Percy Society 23. London: Richards, 1847: 56-7.
Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 96; 1977, 84-5.
Greene, Richard Leighton, ed. A Selection of English Carols. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962: 95.