Adam lay ybounden
15th-century English Christian text / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Adam lay ybounden", originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn,[1] is a 15th-century English Christian text of unknown authorship. It relates the Biblical events of Genesis, Chapter 3 on the Fall of Man.
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Originally a song text, no contemporary musical settings survive, although there are many notable modern choral settings of the text, such as that by Boris Ord.