Como Santa María guariu o crérigo que se lle tornaran as pérnas atrás porque fez ũus panos mẽores dun pano que furtou de sôbelo altar.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar, | 7'7 A | |
| 2 | muito per faz gran folía quen lle vai o séu furtar. | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Onde, se m' oír quisérdes, daquesto vos contarei | 7'7 b | |
| 4 | un miragre mui fremoso que fez a Madre do Rei | 7'7 b | |
| 5 | Jesú-Crist' en Odimira, como vos óra direi, | 7'7 b | |
| 6 | u ela fez ende muitos outros en aquel logar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | Mas este foi muit' apósto e feito con gran razôn; | 7'7 b | |
| 8 | ca ũa mollér séu pano foi dar en ofereçôn | 7'7 b | |
| 9 | a ũa eigreja súa, feita des mui gran sazôn, | 7'7 b | |
| 10 | que está fóra da vila, assí com' oí contar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | Pouco mais ca ũa vara o pan' éra, com' oí, | 7'7 b | |
| 12 | e éra mui ben teçudo e mui delgad' outrossí; | 7'7 b | |
| 13 | e porend' a mollér bõa fora-o põer alí | 7'7 b | |
| 14 | na eigreja, u o vissen estar sôbelo altar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | Un crérigo da eigreja que o viu alí seer, | 7'7 b | |
| 16 | creceu-ll' ên tal cobiíça que o foi lógu' ên toller, †CSM 327:16It is entirely possible that the syllabation in the first hemistich of this line was actually intended to be cre•ce•ü-ll' en tal co•bii•ça) with both diaeresis in creceu (cf. 294:12) and synaeresis in cobiíça (cf. 157:8 and 194:9). However, the "default" syllabation certainly cannot be called wrong with any certainty, so I have stuck with it here. (The music, which has a simple, monotonous rhythm in the first half of the stanza, doesn't really give any clues either way.) | 7'7 b | |
| 17 | e levou-o a sa casa e mandou ende fazer | 7'7 b | |
| 18 | panos con que cobriss' ende o con que ía pecar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | E pois que os houve feitos e con eles se cobriu, | 7'7 b | |
| 20 | deitava-s' a dormir lógo; mais pero pouco dormiu, | 7'7 b | |
| 21 | ca os calcannares ambos pelos lombos os sentiu | 7'7 b | |
| 22 | que ll' entraron tan de rijo que os non pod' ên tirar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 23 | E con mui gran coita féra que havía de door, | 7'7 b | |
| 24 | braadou muit' e dizendo: “Ai, Madre do Salvador, | 7'7 b | |
| 25 | rógo-te que éu non moira assí, se t' ên prazer for.” | 7'7 b | |
| 26 | E do érro que fezéra fillou-s' a mãefestar | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza VII | |||
| 27 | ante todos, e chorando ar fillou-s' a repentir, | 7'7 b | |
| 28 | e dun gran pano de lenço fez lóg' o altar cobrir. | 7'7 b | |
| 29 | E porende, méus amigos, quen este miragr' oír | 7'7 b | |
| 30 | nunca seja atrevudo ena Virgen desonrrar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
| Stanza VIII | |||
| 31 | E sobr' esto à eigreja o levaron manamán, | 7'7 b | |
| 32 | e todos por el rogaron a Sennor do bon talán; | 7'7 b | |
| 33 | e ela guariu-o lógo, que non prendeu i afán; | 7'7 b | |
| 34 | porên todos começaron o séu nome de loar. | 7'7 A | |
| Porque ben Santa María sabe os séus dões dar... | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/327 | |||
Footnotes
| Line 16: | It is entirely possible that the syllabation in the first hemistich of this line was actually intended to be cre•ce•ü-ll' en tal co•bii•ça) with both diaeresis in creceu (cf. 294:12) and synaeresis in cobiíça (cf. 157:8 and 194:9). However, the "default" syllabation certainly cannot be called wrong with any certainty, so I have stuck with it here. (The music, which has a simple, monotonous rhythm in the first half of the stanza, doesn't really give any clues either way.) |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 327 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/581small.htmlExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 327http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=327
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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 | VIII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | aɾ | ||||||||
| b | ei̯ | oŋ | i | eɾ | iu̯ | oɾ | iɾ | aŋ | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 15:00 |
| Slow | 100 | 7:30 |
| Medium | 150 | 5:00 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:45 |
| Very fast | 250 | 3:00 |
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: 750
