TODAY IS THE FEAST DAY OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM :-)
The Walsingham Ballad
The Walsingham Ballad is the name given to the earliest written account of the events of 1061; the vision of Our Lady in Walsingham who appeared to the Lady Richeldis. Written in the mid-fifteenth century (c.1460) and printed by Richard Pynson in 1495 it is often referred to as The Prynson Ballad' and refers to a “lyklynesse” that was to be a “newe Nazareth”.
However, the “Pynson Ballad” goes on to state far more:
O Englonde, great cause thou haste glad for to be,
Compared to the londe of promys syon
Thou atteynest my grace to stande in that degre
Through this gloryous Ladyes supportacyon,
To be called in every realme and regyon
The holy lande, Oure Ladyes dowre;
Thus arte thou named of olde antyquyte.
Compared to the londe of promys syon
Thou atteynest my grace to stande in that degre
Through this gloryous Ladyes supportacyon,
To be called in every realme and regyon
The holy lande, Oure Ladyes dowre;
Thus arte thou named of olde antyquyte.
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