2. Mater, ora filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium.
1
“Fayre maydyn, who is this barn,
That þou beriste in thyn arme?”
“Sir, it is a kyngis son,
That in hevyn a-bove doth wonne.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].
2
“Man to fader he hath non,
But hym self, God alone,
Of a maydyn he wold be borne
To save mankynd þat was forlorn.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].
3
“Thre kyngis browght hym presens,
Gold, myrre & frankynsens,
To my son full of myght,
Kynge of kyngis & lorde of myght.”
Mater, ora [filium, vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].
4
“Fayre maydyn, pray for vs
Vnto thy son, swet Jhesus,
Þat he will send vs of his grace
In hevyn on high to haue a place.”
Mater, ora filium, [vt post hoc exilium
Nobis donet gaudium beatorum omnium].