Esta é como Santa María guardou a un lavrador que non morresse das feridas que lle dava un cavaleiro e séus hómees.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus | 10 A | |
| 2 | de defender e ampará-los séus. | 10 A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Gran poder há, ca séu Fillo llo déu, | 10 b | |
| 4 | en defender quen se chamar por séu; | 10 b | |
| 5 | e dest' un miragre vos direi éu | 10 b | |
| 6 | que ela fez grande nos días méus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | En Armenteira foi un lavrador, | 10 b | |
| 8 | que un cavaleiro, por desamor | 10 b | |
| 9 | mui grande que haví' a séu sennor, | 10 b | |
| 10 | foi polo matar, per nome Matéus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | E u o viu séu millo debullar | 10 b | |
| 12 | na eira, mandou-lle lançadas dar; | 10 b | |
| 13 | mas el começou a Madr' a chamar | 10 b | |
| 14 | do que na cruz mataron os judéus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | Dúas lançadas lle déu un peôn, | 10 b | |
| 16 | mas non ll' entraron; e escantaçôn | 10 b | |
| 17 | cuidou que éra o coteif', entôn | 10 b | |
| 18 | mais bravo foi que Judas Macabéus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | Entôn a sa azcũa lle lançou | 10 b | |
| 20 | e feriu-o, pero nono chagou; | 10 b | |
| 21 | ca el a Santa María chamou: | 10 b | |
| 22 | “Sennor, val-me como vales os téus, | 10 A | |
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 23 | e non moira, ca non merecí mal.” | 10 b | |
| 24 | Eles, pois viron o miragr' atal | 10 b | |
| 25 | que fez a Reínna esperital, | 10 b | |
| 26 | crevéron ben, ca ant' éran encréus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
| Stanza VII | |||
| 27 | E fillaron-se lóg' a repentir | 10 b | |
| 28 | e ao lavrador perdôn pedir, | 10 b | |
| 29 | e déron-ll' algu'; e el punnou de s' ir | 10 b | |
| 30 | a Rocamador con outros roméus. | 10 A | |
| Mui gran poder há a Madre de Déus... | |||
Footnotes
| E1: | The flat on this stave in [E] is placed too late, so I have moved it to the start. Note that [To] has this cantiga written in C which would imply the flat throughout the melody when transposed to F as in [E]. |
| E2: | The note here on the word e is repeated at the same pitch either side of the page break. |
| E3: | In the facsimile of [E] this ligature has a very short downward stem on the right (as in .onyeyewon but shorter), but since the stem is explicitly crossed out at the corresponding place in the vuelta (at E4) I have omitted it here, on the assumption that it represents a mistake either by the original music scribe or by Anglés' assistant when retouching. |
| E4: | See E3. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 22 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/091small.htmlExternal link |
| [T] | 22 | |
| [To] | 22 | view p1http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob021small.gifExternal link view p2http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob022small.gifExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 22http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=22
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 10 10 |
Stanzas
| 10 10 10 10 |
Rhyme
AA / bbbA| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ɛu̯s | |||||||
| b | ɛu̯ | oɾ | aɾ | oŋ | ou̯ | al | iɾ | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 8:48 |
| Slow | 100 | 4:24 |
| Medium | 150 | 2:55 |
| Fast | 200 | 2:12 |
| Very fast | 250 | 1:45 |
These are very approximate total times for a full sung (or spoken) performance of all stanzas with all repeats of the refrain. Note that the speed is in average syllables per minute, and no particular mensural interpretation is assumed. More ornamented music will reduce the syllabic speed considerably. Remember also to add time for instrumental preludes, interludes and postludes.
Total syllables: 440
