Adam Lay Ybounden [English translation]

Adam had fallen

Fallen deep into guilt;

Four thousand winters,

He regarded as not too long.

And all was for an apple,

An apple that he took,

That scholars find

Written in a book.

Had he never taken the apple,

The apple not taken,

Never would Our Lady

Have been a Heavenly Queen.

Blessed be the time,

The apple was taken

So that we may sing:

Thanks to the Lord