Como Santa María do Pórto guardou triínta hómees que cavavan térra pera sa igreja, e caeu ũa torre sobr' eles e non lles empeeceu.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura, | 7'7' A | |
| 2 | de tod' ocajôn o guarda, ca é Sennor de mesura. | 7'7' A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Desto direi un miragre que eno gran Pórt' avẽo | 7'7' b | |
| 4 | que chaman da Grorïosa, que cabo do Mar Terrẽo | 7'7' b | |
| 5 | éste e cabo do Grande, que ten a térra no sẽo | 7'7' b | |
| 6 | e cerca todo o mundo, según diz a escritura. | 7'7' A | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | Alí fazían eigreja en que lavrava gran gente | 7'7' b | |
| 8 | pera esta Sennor santa, todos de mui bõa mente; | 7'7' b | |
| 9 | e fazían fondamentos fondos, per que mais tẽente | 7'7' b | |
| 10 | foss' a óbra e mais firme, todo de pédra mui dura. | 7'7' A | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | E havíana tan fonda feita, que quena ben visse | 7'7' b | |
| 12 | cuidaría que null' hóme per ren dela non saísse | 7'7' b | |
| 13 | se dentr' en ela caesse, mais que tan tóste fĩisse, | 7'7' b | |
| 14 | ca o logar éra fondo muit' e a cóva escura. | 7'7' A | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | Alí jazían cavando un día triínta obreiros †CSM 364:15The compressed syllable of the word triinta with synaeresis falls on an ascending plica .bod, preserving the natural hiatus. Modern Portuguese and Galician have trinta with two syllables. | 7'7' b | .bod |
| 16 | so esquina dũa torre, por gaannar séus dinneiros; | 7'7' b | |
| 17 | e a torre, que estava pósta sobre terronteiros, | 7'7' b | |
| 18 | leixou-se caer sobr' eles. Mais non houvéron ên cura; | 7'7' A | |
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | ca a Virgen glorïosa, en cujo serviç' estavan †CSM 364:19See CSM 271:39, CSM 305:13 and CSM 308:37 for attested cases of elision in the word serviço. | 7'7' b | |
| 20 | lavrando na sa igreja, en que de grado lavravan, | 7'7' b | |
| 21 | guardó-os entôn de guisa que nïún mal non fillavan | 7'7' b | |
| 22 | en nïún nembro do córpo nen sól ena conjuntura. | 7'7' A | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 23 | Ante ficaron tan sãos ben como quand' i entraran †CSM 364:23After this line there is a gap in [E] corresponding in size to the rest of this single stanza, and since none of the other manuscripts has this cantiga, it is not possible to know what the text might have been. Fortunately, however, the gap seems to be after the narrative climax, and the stanzas immediately before and after this one are not left with incomplete sentences, so it would seem to be an entirely reasonable performance choice here to just omit the incomplete stanza altogether. The final stanza is quite sufficient in itself to wrap up the tale. | 7'7' | |
| 24 | [............................................................] | — | |
| 25 | [............................................................] | — | |
| 26 | [............................................................] | — | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
| Stanza VII | |||
| 27 | E se ante ben lavravan, mui mellor depois lavraron, | 7'7' b | |
| 28 | assí que en pouco tempo a eigreja acabaron | 7'7' b | |
| 29 | mui fremosa e mui fórte, tal que quantos la cataron | 7'7' b | |
| 30 | disséron que non havía tal en tod' Estremadura. | 7'7' A | |
| Quen por serviço da Virgen mete séu córp' en ventura... | |||
Footnotes
| Line 15: | The compressed syllable of the word triinta with synaeresis falls on an ascending plica .bod, preserving the natural hiatus. Modern Portuguese and Galician have trinta with two syllables. |
| Line 19: | See CSM 271:39, CSM 305:13 and CSM 308:37 for attested cases of elision in the word serviço. |
| Line 23: | After this line there is a gap in [E] corresponding in size to the rest of this single stanza, and since none of the other manuscripts has this cantiga, it is not possible to know what the text might have been. Fortunately, however, the gap seems to be after the narrative climax, and the stanzas immediately before and after this one are not left with incomplete sentences, so it would seem to be an entirely reasonable performance choice here to just omit the incomplete stanza altogether. The final stanza is quite sufficient in itself to wrap up the tale. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 364 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/650small.htmlExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 364http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=364
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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 | uɾa | uɾa | ||||||
| b | eŋo | ente | ise | ei̯ɾos | aβaŋ | aɾoŋ | ||
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 13:07 |
| Slow | 100 | 6:33 |
| Medium | 150 | 4:22 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:16 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:37 |
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: 656
