CSM Cantiga 263 Lyrics: Muit' é ben-aventurado e en bon ponto naceu

The text for the first hemistich of this line, as written by the lyric scribes in both [F] and [E], and copied by Mettmann, is Ca ela sempre a nos dá. This has the correct number of syllables, and Mettmann lets it pass without comment. Things are not quite so simple for those of us who care about the music, unfortunately: the hemistich is supposed to end with an unstressed syllable, to match every other line, but the verb dá here naturally attracts the stress. The music scribe in [E] obviously latched onto this, and wrote just a single note for -pre a, in order to force synalepha (or elision) and thereby bring dá forward in the melody to a point where the rhythm matches the stress, leaving it with a long note at the end of the phrase. Of course, the seven notes/ligatures that remain then completely fail to fit the other stanzas. To fix this, I have just added an extra punctum at the end of the phrase for the unstressed syllable, at E2 on the Music tab, matching the music for d' erro in the next line; and for the first stanza I have kept the desired elision to sempr' a and drawn out dá at the end with a small melisma, so as to keep the stress and rhythm in agreement. With reference to Elmes' edition, this means that the fourth bar of line 5, which contains just a dotted minim on D, should be changed to match the fourth bar of line 7, which has D minim + D crotchet.