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Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae ('O tres piteulx')
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Superius
 O tres piteulx de tout espoir fontaine
 Pere du filz dont suis mere esploree
 Plaindre me viens a ta court sourveraine
 De ta puissance et de nature humaine
 Qui ont souffert telle durte villaine
 Faire a mon filz, qui tant m'a hounouree.

 Dont suis de bien et de joye separee
 Sans que vivant veulle entendre mes plains.
 A toy, seul Dieu, du forfait me complains
 Du gref tourment et douloureulx oultrage
 Que voy souffrir au plus bel des humains
 Sans nul confort de tout humain lignage.

Tenor
 Omnes amici ejus spreverunt eam
 Non est qui consoletur eam ex omnibus caris eius1

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1 from Lamentationes Jeremiae 1,2

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  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "The Lament for the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople ('O most piteous')", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
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Word count: 103