Heu heu heu - Estampie

Heu, heu, heu!

Quo casu Sortis venit haec damnatio mortis?

Heu, heu, heu!

Scelus infandum!

Cur me dabit ad lacerandum

Haec fera turba feris?

Sic me, Rex, perdere quaeris?

Heu!

Qua morte mori me cogis?

Parce furori

(Et rex non potens eum liberare, dicet ei:)

Deus, quem colis tam fideliter

Te liberabit mirabiliter

(Tunc projicient Danielem in lacum. Statimque angelus tenens gladium

comminabitur leonibus, ne tangant eum, et Daniel intrans lacum dicet:)

Hujus rei non sum reus;

Miserere mei Deus;

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Mitte, Deus, huc patronum

Qui refrenet vim leonum;

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(Interea ali us angelus admonebit Abacuc prophetam, ut deferat prandium,

quod portabat messoribus suis, Danieli in lacum leonum, dicens:)

Alas, alas, alas!

By what chance did this condemnation of death come?

Alas, alas, alas!

Unspeakable crime!

Why medabit to tear down

This savage beast?

So are you looking to destroy me, King?

Alas!

By what death do you force me to die?

Spare your fury

(And the king will not be able to deliver him, he will say to him:)

God, whom you worship so faithfully

He will deliver you wonderfully

(Then they will cast Daniel into the lake. Immediately the angel holding the sword

He will threaten the lions, lest they touch him, and Daniel will say when entering the pit

I am not responsible for this;

God have mercy on me;

have mercy

Send, God, protector

Who restrains the violence of the lions;

have mercy

(In the mean time our angel will remind us that Habakkuk the prophet is to offer lunch,

which he was carrying to his harvesters, to Daniel in the lion's den