Edi beo thu hevene quene (translation, Maureen S. O’Brien)
Blessed are you, heavenly Queen, humans’ heartsease and angels’ bliss.
Mother unblemished and maiden clean, as in this world no other is.
Of you it is easily seen, among all women you are the most blest.
O my sweet Lady, hear my plea; take pity on me as pleases you best.
You rose up like rays of dawn do, that separate day from the dark night.
From you sprung up a glimmer new, that all this world has filled with light.
There is no maiden of such a hue, so fair, so lovely, so rosy, so bright.
O my sweet Lady, have mercy true, take pity on me, your poor knight.
Mother full of gracious virtue, maiden patient and well-taught,
All of me is drawn on to you, in your love’s bonds I am caught.
Shield me, please, from the fiend, you are noble, able, and willingly have fought.
Help me till my life’s end, and make me make peace with your Son as I ought.