VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Mary Jo Gothmann, piano

Adam lay ibounden, bounden in a bond;
Four thousand winter thought he not to long.
And all was for an appil, an appil that he took,
As clerkès finden written in their book.

Ne had the appil taken ben, the appil taken ben,
Ne haddè never our lady a ben hevenè queen.
Blessed be the time that appil takè was.
Therefore we must singen: Deo gracias!
—Anonymous 15th century poem