Lenten Prayer
Adam lay ibounden,
bounden in a bond
four thousand winters
thought he not too long;
and all was for an apple,
an apple that he took,
as clerkes finden written
in their book.
Ne had the apple taken been,
the apple taken been,
ne had never our lady
been Heaven's queen.
Blessed be the time
that apple taken was!
Therefore we may singen
Deo gracias.
Medieval song
