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The poems of John Audelay

Edited with introduction, notes and glossary [by Ella Keats Whiting]
Audelay, John

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Audite hec, omnes gentes: hanc epistolam scripsit Dominus Ihesus Christus manibus suis et misit in siuitatem Gazon vbi ego Petrus primum episcopatum accepi.
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In die epephanis &c.
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In die natalis domini.

Welcum, ȝole, in good aray,
In worchip of þe holeday.
Welcum be þou Heuen Kyng,
Welcum, i-bore in hon mornyng,
Welcum, to þe now wil we syng,
Welcum, ȝole, for euer and ay.
Welcum be þou Mare myld,
Welcum be þou and þi Child;
Welcum, fro þe fynd þou vs schilde,
Welcum, ȝole, fore euer and ay.
Welcum be ȝe Steuen and Ione,
Welcum, childern euerechone,
Wellcum, Thomas marter alle on,
Welcum, ȝole, for euer and ay.
Welcum be þou good new ȝere,
Welcum, þe xij days e-fere,
Welcum be ȝe alle þat bene here,
Welcum, ȝole, for euer and ay.
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Welcum be ȝe lord and lady,
Welcum be ȝe al þis cumpane,
Fore ȝolis loue now makis mere,
Welcum, ȝole, fore euer and ay.
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