Como Santa María acorreu a un moço de Segóbia que caeu dun sobrado mui alto, e non se feriu porque disse: “Santa María, val-me.”
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal | 7'7 A | |
| 2 | u dizen todos nas coitas: “ai, Santa María, val!” | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Ca muito é gran vertude e pïadad' e mercee †CSM 282:3Synaeresis at the end of this line, and the next two, is required in order to correct the syllable count and give the hemistich final stress, thereby matching the masculine rhyme in all other stanzas. Unfortunately, the music scribe in [E] was rather inconsistent here, writing an extra note for the final -e of mercee and cree, but not vee. The fix, from the point of view of the manuscript, is simply to delete the extra notes, as I have done at E2 and E3 on the Music tab, so that all stanzas then fit once the synaeresis is applied in the first one. From the point of view of Elmes' transcription, it is necessary to replace the two crotchets on A at the ends of lines 3 and 4 of the music with a single minim (as is found at the ends of the other four lines). | 7'7 b | .o |
| 4 | d' acorrer sól por un vérvo a quen en ela ben cree; | 7'7 b | .o |
| 5 | ca estando con séu Fillo, todo sab' e todo vee, | 7'7 b | .o |
| 6 | pero quena aquí chama sa mercee non lle fal. | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | E daquest' un séu miragre mui fremoso contarei | 7'7 b | |
| 8 | que mostrou grand' en Segóvi' a, com' éu en verdad' achei, | 7'7 b | .e |
| 9 | un fillo de Dïag' Sánchez, un cavaleiro que sei | 7'7 b | |
| 10 | que na cidade morava e éra ên natural. | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | Est' havía un séu fillo que amava mais ca si; | 7'7 b | |
| 12 | e un día trebellando andava, com' aprendí, | 7'7 b | |
| 13 | encima dũu sobrado muit' alt', e caeu dalí | 7'7 b | |
| 14 | de cóstas, cabeça juso, e foi caer ena cal. | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | A ama que o crïava foi corrend' a aquel son | 7'7 b | |
| 16 | do meninno que caera, e o padre lógu' entôn; | 7'7 b | |
| 17 | e outrossí fez a madre, que o mui de coraçôn | 7'7 b | |
| 18 | amava mais d' outra cousa como séu fillo carnal, | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | coidando que mórto éra, e foron polo fillar. | 7'7 b | |
| 20 | E quando pararon mentes, vírono en pé estar | 7'7 b | |
| 21 | trebellando e riíndo, e fôrono preguntar | 7'7 b | |
| 22 | se éra ja que ferido ou se se sentía mal. | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 23 | Diss' el: “Non, ca en saendo chamei a Madre de Déus, | 7'7 b | |
| 24 | que me fillou atán tóste lógo enos braços séus; | 7'7 b | |
| 25 | ca se aquesto non fosse, juro-vos, par San Matéus, | 7'7 b | |
| 26 | que todo fora desfeito quando caí, come sal.” | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
| Stanza VII | |||
| 27 | Quand' est' oiü o padre e a madre, gran loor | 7'7 b | .o |
| 28 | déron a Santa María, Madre de Nóstro Sennor; | 7'7 b | |
| 29 | e lóg' o moço levaron aa eigreja maior | 7'7 b | |
| 30 | con muitas candeas outras e con un séu estadal. | 7'7 A | |
| Par Déus, muit' há gran vertude na paravla comũal... | |||
Footnotes
| Line 3: | Synaeresis at the end of this line, and the next two, is required in order to correct the syllable count and give the hemistich final stress, thereby matching the masculine rhyme in all other stanzas. Unfortunately, the music scribe in [E] was rather inconsistent here, writing an extra note for the final -e of mercee and cree, but not vee. The fix, from the point of view of the manuscript, is simply to delete the extra notes, as I have done at E2 and E3 on the Music tab, so that all stanzas then fit once the synaeresis is applied in the first one. From the point of view of Elmes' transcription, it is necessary to replace the two crotchets on A at the ends of lines 3 and 4 of the music with a single minim (as is found at the ends of the other four lines). |
Footnotes
| E1: | At this point in the manuscript the incorrect punctum .o appears to have been crossed out, but the the expected rhomboid .e was not written in its place. |
| E2: | See the note to line 3 of the lyrics for an explanation of the deletion here and at E3. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 282 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/503small.htmlExternal link |
| [F] | — | (miniatures but no text) |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 282http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=282
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 7' | 7 7' | 7 |
Stanzas
| 7' | 7 7' | 7 7' | 7 7' | 7 |
Rhyme
AA / bbbA| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | al | |||||||
| b | e | ei̯ | i | oŋ | aɾ | ɛu̯s | oɾ | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 13:11 |
| Slow | 100 | 6:35 |
| Medium | 150 | 4:24 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:17 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:38 |
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: 660
