Como Santa María se vingou do escudeiro que déu couce na pórta da sa eigreja.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Mal s' há end' achar | 5 A | |
| 2 | quen quisér desonrrar Santa María. | 10' B | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Como s' achou, non há i mui gran sazôn, | 11 c | |
| 4 | en Galiza un escudeiraz peôn | 11 c | |
| 5 | que quis mui felôn | 5 c | |
| 6 | britá-la eigreja con felonía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | Santa María a ermida nom' há | 11 c | |
| 8 | do Monte, porque en logar alt' está; | 11 c | |
| 9 | e foron alá | 5 c | |
| 10 | de gentes entôn mui gran romaría | 10' B | |
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | en ũa fésta, per com' éu aprendí, | 11 c | |
| 12 | de meant' Agosto. E pois chegou i | 11 c | |
| 13 | gran gent', e des i | 5 c | |
| 14 | começaron a tẽer sa vigía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | O escudeiro que vos dixe chegou | 11 c | |
| 16 | e viu ũa moça, de que se pagou, | 11 c | |
| 17 | que forçar cuidou; | 5 c | |
| 18 | mais ela per ren non llo consentía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | E travando dela cuidou-a forçar; | 11 c | |
| 20 | mais proug' a Déus e nono pod' acabar, | 11 c | |
| 21 | ca foi-ll' escapar | 5 c | |
| 22 | e fogind' à eigreja se collía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 23 | Aos braados a gente recodiu, | 11 c | |
| 24 | e a mininna mercee lles pediu | 11 c | |
| 25 | que daquel que viu | 5 c | |
| 26 | a quiséssen guardar de sa perfía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza VII | |||
| 27 | As gentes, temendo de lles vĩir mal, | 11 c | |
| 28 | foron sarrá-las pórtas lógo sen al, | 11 c | |
| 29 | e chamando: “Val, | 5 c | |
| 30 | Madre de Déus, ca mestér nos sería.” | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza VIII | |||
| 31 | O escudeiro, tanto que viu fugir | 11 c | |
| 32 | a moça, leixou-se depós ela ir | 11 c | |
| 33 | dizendo: “Guarir | 5 c | |
| 34 | non me pódes, rapariga sandía.” | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
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| Stanza IX | |||
| 35 | E quando as pórtas sarradas achou, | 11 c | |
| 36 | per poucas que de sanna sandeu tornou, | 11 c | |
| 37 | e lógo jurou | 5 c | |
| 38 | que a couces toda-las britaría. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza X | |||
| 39 | E com' éra atrevudo e sandeu, | 11 c | |
| 40 | quis acabar aquelo que prometeu, | 11 c | |
| 41 | e o pé ergeu | 5 c | |
| 42 | e ena pórta gran couce dar ía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
| Stanza XI | |||
| 43 | Mais avẽo-ll' en como vos éu direi: | 11 c | |
| 44 | britou-xe-ll' a pérna, segund' apres' hei, | 11 c | |
| 45 | per prazer do Rei, | 5 c | |
| 46 | Fillo da Virgen, a que desprazía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
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| Stanza XII | |||
| 47 | E d' al ll' avẽo aínda mui peior: | 11 c | |
| 48 | esmoreceu con coita e con door, | 11 c | |
| 49 | e Nóstro Sennor | 5 c | |
| 50 | sen tod' aquest' a fala lle tollía | 10' B | |
| Stanza XIII | |||
| 51 | en tal guisa, que pois nunca disse ren | 11 c | |
| 52 | érgo “ai, Santa María.” E des ên | 11 c | |
| 53 | tolleit' e sen sen | 5 c | |
| 54 | viveu gran temp' e per pórtas pidía. | 10' B | |
| Mal s' há end' achar... | |||
Footnotes
| E1: | There is no clear reason why two stanzas of this cantiga are written out with music. The reprise of the refrain at E2 is abbreviated, but this makes no sense musically, and in any case the full refrain is written out after all remaining stanzas. I have therefore expanded it here, for clarity. |
| E2: | See E1. |
| E3: | [E] does not have this natural sign, but I have added it to ensure consistency with all other statements of the same phrase in the refrains and vueltas. Elmes says that it would be "feasible to keep the B flat throughout", and Anglés does exactly that, but to my own ear, keeping the naturals is preferable. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 317 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/564small.htmlExternal link |
| [F] | 92 | |
| [To] | 84 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob075small.gifExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 317http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=317
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 5 10' |
Stanzas
| 11 11 5 10' |
Rhyme
AB / cccB| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | XIII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | aɾ | |||||||||||||
| B | i.a | |||||||||||||
| c | oŋ | a | i | ou̯ | aɾ | iu̯ | al | iɾ | ou̯ | eu̯ | ei̯ | oɾ | eŋ | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 14:21 |
| Slow | 100 | 7:10 |
| Medium | 150 | 4:47 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:35 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:52 |
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: 718
