|
|
|
|
XIV cent
The Coventry Carol originates from the Coventry Mystery Play Cycle, from the Shearmen and Tailors' Pageant. The song
took place after a scene depicting King Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents. The play's manuscript was destroyed by
fire in 1879, but the play and songs survive in a study by Thomas Sharp, printed in 1817 and 1825.
Lully lulla þw littell tiné child
By by lully lullay þw littell tyné child
By by lully lullay!
O sisters too how may we do
For to preserve þis day
This pore yongling for whom we do singe
By by lully lullay
Herod the king in his raging
Chargid he hath this day
His men of might in his owne sight
All yonge children to slay
That wo is me pore child for thee
And ever morne and say
For thi parting nether say nor singe
By by lully lullay
|
|
Text Source:
Green, Richard Leighton, ed. The Early English Carols.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. 130.
 | to Middle English Lyrics |
| to Middle English Plays |
| to Middle English Literature |
| to Luminarium Main |
Site copyright ©1996-2022 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved.
Created by Anniina Jokinen on December 14, 2022.
|
|
Middle English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Gower
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
William Langland / Piers Plowman
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
Thomas Malory / Morte D'Arthur
John Lydgate
Thomas Hoccleve
Paston Letters
Everyman
Medieval Plays
Middle English Lyrics
Essays and Articles
Sciences
Medieval Cosmology
Historical Events and Persons
Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
Edward III
Edward, Black Prince of Wales
Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
Thomas of Woodstock, Gloucester
Richard of York, E. of Cambridge
Richard II
Henry IV
Edward, Duke of York
Henry V
Thomas, Duke of Clarence
John, Duke of Bedford
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Catherine of Valois
Charles VII, King of France
Joan of Arc
Louis XI, King of France
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
Causes of the Wars of the Roses
The House of Lancaster
The House of York
The House of Beaufort
The House of Neville
Henry VI
Margaret of Anjou
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
Edward IV
Elizabeth Woodville
Edward V
Richard III
George, Duke of Clarence
More at Encyclopedia and at
Additional Medieval Sources
|
|
