minstrel: "Medieval Eventide Song"?

[L Joseph]

-- david ball <dkball at hotmail.com> wrote:
> A friend asked me if I knew the origin of a song
> printed in an old book he 
> had from his Mother.
Any chance you have the title of the book?

 The title is "Medieval Eventide
> Song" with no 
> attribution. To be honest, I am not all that sure
> what an "Eventide Song" 
> is. But I figured, if anyone knew where this one
> came from, then no one 
> would. I have included the first stanza below.
"Eventide" means evening and judging from the stanza
quoted, I'm going to guess this is a lullabye. I am
not familiar with this particular piece, however, the
spelling suggests to me that it's 14th or 15th century
English in origin. Darn if the books I DO have at this
end of the country aren't packed for another move.

Anybody have a collection of medieval English lyric
poetry handy?

Sorry not to have more to contribute.

Jehanne de Wodeford (West)

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --Frank Zappa

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