Como Santa María fez a un bispo cantar missa e déu-ll' a vestimenta con que a dissésse, e leixou-lla quando se foi.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Quantos en Santa María | 7' A | |
| 2 | esperança han, | 5 B | |
| 3 | ben se porrá sa fazenda. | 7' C | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 4 | Os que m' oen cada día | 7' A | |
| 5 | e que m' oïrán, | 5 B | |
| 6 | de grado lles contaría | 7' A | |
| 7 | miragre mui gran | 5 B | |
| 8 | dun bon bispo que havía | 7' A | |
| 9 | en Alvérna, tan | 5 B | |
| 10 | santo que viu sen contenda, †CSM 66:10Elmes has mui instead of viu here, and this does indeed appear to be the form found in [E]—there are clearly six vertical strokes. However, viu makes more sense and is the word found in [To] and [T], so mui is most likely a copying error somewhere along the chain leading to [E]. | 7' C | |
| Stanza II | |||
| 11 | na capéla u jazía, | 7' A | |
| 12 | a do Bon Talán. | 5 B | |
| 13 | Vẽo con gran compannía | 7' A | |
| 14 | desses que están | 5 B | |
| 15 | ante Déus e todavía | 7' A | |
| 16 | por nós rogarán | 5 B | |
| 17 | que el de mal nos defenda. | 7' C | |
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| Stanza III | |||
| 18 | E a séu déstro tragía | 7' A | |
| 19 | sigo San Joán, | 5 B | |
| 20 | que ll' entôn assí dizía | 7' A | |
| 21 | “Quaes cantarán | 5 B | |
| 22 | a missa que converría, | 7' A | |
| 23 | ou quaes dirán | 5 B | |
| 24 | toda a outra leenda? | 7' C | |
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| Stanza IV | |||
| 25 | E dizede, quen sería | 7' A | |
| 26 | vósso capelán?” | 5 B | |
| 27 | E ela lle respondía: | 7' A | |
| 28 | “O bispo que man | 5 B | |
| 29 | aquí, que sempre perfía | 7' A | |
| 30 | fillou e afán | 5 B | |
| 31 | por mi en esta prebenda.” | 7' C | |
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| Stanza V | |||
| 32 | E lógo pera el ía | 7' A | |
| 33 | e diss' ao san- †CSM 66:33This curious division of sant', the elided form of santo, is (rather surprisingly) not just Mettmann's own editorial indication of the rhyme: it is actually written this way across two lines in all three manuscripts. | 5 B | |
| 34 | t' hóm': “Aquesta missa di-a, | 7' A | |
| 35 | e responderán | 5 B | |
| 36 | esta santa crerizía, | 7' A | |
| 37 | que ben saberán | 5 B | |
| 38 | responder-ti sen emenda.” | 7' C | |
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 39 | O bispo, quand' est' oía, | 7' A | |
| 40 | lógo manamán | 5 B | |
| 41 | as vestimentas pedía; | 7' A | |
| 42 | e taes llas dan | 5 B | |
| 43 | que hóme non podería | 7' A | |
| 44 | preçá-las de pran | 5 B | |
| 45 | nen a compra nen a venda. | 7' C | |
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| Stanza VII | |||
| 46 | E pois que se revestía, | 7' A | |
| 47 | come sancristán | 5 B | |
| 48 | San Pédr' o sino tangía, | 7' A | |
| 49 | e os outros van | 5 B | |
| 50 | cantand', e el bẽeizía | 7' A | |
| 51 | o vinn' e o pan | 5 B | |
| 52 | como a lee comenda. | 7' C | |
| Quantos en Santa María... | |||
| Stanza VIII | |||
| 53 | E pois a missa compría | 7' A | |
| 54 | ben sen adamán, | 5 B | |
| 55 | diss' a Virgen: “éu ir-m-ía, | 7' A | |
| 56 | e todos ir-s-an; | 5 B | |
| 57 | mais o que ti éu dad' havía †CSM 66:57Obligatory synalepha after unstressed ti; see the Concordance for more examples. In fact, as Mettmann notes, the word ti is missing altogether from [E]. Note also that to dei in the last line of this stanza is an even more compressed form of ti o dei, and [T] and [To] actually have tio dey here. | 7' A | .ron |
| 58 | nono levarán, | 5 B | |
| 59 | pois to dei por oferenda.” †CSM 66:59See note to line 57. | 7' C | |
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Footnotes
| Line 10: | Elmes has mui instead of viu here, and this does indeed appear to be the form found in [E]—there are clearly six vertical strokes. However, viu makes more sense and is the word found in [To] and [T], so mui is most likely a copying error somewhere along the chain leading to [E]. |
| Line 33: | This curious division of sant', the elided form of santo, is (rather surprisingly) not just Mettmann's own editorial indication of the rhyme: it is actually written this way across two lines in all three manuscripts. |
| Line 57: | Obligatory synalepha after unstressed ti; see the Concordance for more examples. In fact, as Mettmann notes, the word ti is missing altogether from [E]. Note also that to dei in the last line of this stanza is an even more compressed form of ti o dei, and [T] and [To] actually have tio dey here. |
| Line 59: | See note to line 57. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 66 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/166small.htmlExternal link |
| [T] | 66 | |
| [To] | 78 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob071small.gifExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 66http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=66
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 7' 5 7' |
Stanzas
| 7' 5 7' 5 7' 5 7' |
Rhyme
ABC / ABABABC| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | i.a | ||||||||
| B | aŋ | ||||||||
| C | enda | ||||||||
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 11:18 |
| Slow | 100 | 5:39 |
| Medium | 150 | 3:46 |
| Fast | 200 | 2:49 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:15 |
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: 565
