CSM Cantiga 87 Lyrics: Muito punna d' os séus honrrar †Cantiga 87In this cantiga I depart from Mettmann and follow the structure with variant refrains argued for by Stephen Parkinson [SP1987], which gives by far the best results for performance, avoiding a lot of rather dull musical repetition. It's clear from the manuscripts that none of the scribes understood this structure. The [E] scribe—copied by Mettmann—mistook the variant refrains for two-line stanzas, deciding to add extra repeats of the initial refrain around these; but the consequent alternation between long and short stanzas then left no obvious means of abbreviating the structure of the music, and the whole cantiga ended up being laboriously written out with all of the stanzas overlaid. The [To] and [T] scribes, on the other hand, took the variant refrains to be extensions of the preceding stanza, only repeating the initial refrain after them, not before—but nowhere assigning them any music. Note, by the way, that the refrains do not all share a single identical rhyming scheme as usual, but instead each have one line that rhymes with the associated stanza. I have numbered the rhyming groups specially to highlight this unique feature.