Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book | ||
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53. What, hard ye not, þe kyng of Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem? etc.
1
I shall you tell a gret mervayll,How an angell, for owr avayll,
Com to a mayd, & said: “All hayll!”
What, hard ye not, [þe kyng of Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem?]
2
“All hayll,” he said, “and full of grace,God is with the now in this place,
A child þou shalt bere in lytill space.”
What, hard [ye not, þe kyng Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem?]
3
“A child!” she said: “how may that be?Þer had never no man knowlage of me.”
“Þe Holy Gost,” he said, “shall light in the.”
What, hard [ye not, þe kyng of Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem?]
4
“And as þou art, so shall thow be,”The angell said, “in virgynite,
Beffore & after in euery degree.”
What, hard ye not, [þe kyng of Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem?]
5
The mayd answered þe angell agyn:“Yf God will, þat this be sayn,
The wordis be to me full fayn.”
What, hard [ye not, þe kyng of Jherusalem
Is now born in Bethelem?]
6
Now will we all, in reioysyngeÞat we haue hard þis good tydyng,
To þat child Te Deum synge.
Te Deum laudamus.
Explicit.
Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book | ||