T195 Iam minae fere sileant

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Iam minae fere sileant
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiC, No. 21, ff. 19r (S), 20r (A), 16v (T), 17r-17v (B); I-Rvat CS 15, ff. 234v-235r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Iam minae fere sileant et nostri 
Sit tibi regis populique cura
Ut viam semper teneant electam,
Digna Maria.

English translation: 

May the threats be silent already and the care of our king and people may be yours, so that they may always keep the chosen road, worthy Mary.

Description: 

This text is a stanza from a Marian contrafactum of a Christmas hymn by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).

Subject: 
BVM
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.

Related texts in other sources: 

Compare the original poem on which the contrafactum is based (Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Metrum saphicum adonium de nativitate Domini, in Epigrammata), st. 8 (and last):
Da bonam nobis, puer alme, pacem;
Sit tibi regis populique cura,
Ut viam semper teneant placentem
Rex tibi celi.

Further notes: 

This text observes the form of the Sapphic stanza.
Continuation of T191-194 (see the relevant records for a comparison of original and contrafacted stanzas).