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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
[Voice I]
Miles Christi gloriose
Symon certans in agone
Pro iusticia
Qui constanter conseruasti
A subuersione
Fidem Christi tibi datam
Et a lesione
Vt nos mundet a delictis
Satisfactione
Et in ***
[Voice II]
Plorate ciues Anglie
Magnanimum Lecestrie
Qui bellans pro iusticia
Prostratus est in Anglia.
O zelus ineffabile
[O] nephas <innarrabile>
Quo fit pius ob emulis
Morti datur et meritis
Dum pungnat pro iusticia.
Prauorum ruit framea
Fideles ***
Miles Christi (222)
Cambridge, St John's College, MS F. (formerly MS 138),
former fols 127v–128r (now detached)
[Voice I] O Simon, by fighting to the death for justice as a glorious soldier of Christ you staunchly kept [5] from overthrow and harm that faith in Christ which was given to you, so that he might cleanse us of our sins by penance [10] and in ***
[Voice II] O citizens of England, weep for the great-hearted earl of Leicester who was cut down battling for justice in England. [5] O the wonderful zeal, O the unspeakable wickedness, by which he is made blessed. While he fights for justice he is given over to death by his enemies and by those who deserve it themselves. He falls to the evildoers’ spear. [10] The faithful ***
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