A popular tune of the Renaissance and Baroque period, used by many composers in different settings, sacred and profane. En grand melancolie se tourmentoit, Disant ainsi, douce Vierge Marie Abregez moy la vie, puisque mourir je doy. Mon pauvre coeur souspire incessament, Aussi ma mort desire journellement. I did one of my doctoral lectures on this very topic this month. Here is my file of texts.
Spellings are of course as they appear in the sources and secondary literature.
For the most extensive list of settings, see Oscar Mischiati's compilation in the preface to Frescobaldi's masses. See Madre non mi far monaca . Also in a Lyon songbook, 1557. All is offered to God's glory vnd seligkeyt der Seelen, and to the blessedness of souls. One should praise God the Lord in aller art der zungen.