Here, as promised, the whole song cycle with all eight pieces put together.
divine zeal in highest praise gave the kiss of peace to the virgin Ursula, with her crowd, among all the people; so wherever they came to on their way they were received with the joy of heavenly paradise, because they appeared in honourable religious behaviour; from their fatherland and from other regions religious men and wise men came to join them who kept them in virginal protection and ministered to them in all things; because god had shown in the first woman how woman should be nurtured by the protection of man
because air is in flight and fulfils its duty in all creatures and the firmament sustains it and the air feeds on that strength; and so these girls were supported by the highest men bearing the banners of virginal nature’s royal issue; because god sent his dew upon them from which came a great fame so that all people savoured this fame like food; but the devil in his envy mocked it since he has never left any work of god untouched
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