III. Nowel, nowel, nowel, nowel,
Nowel, nowel, nowel, nowel!
Inquit Marie Gabriel:
‘Concipies Emanuel.’
1
‘Hayle, full of grace: Criste is with the,’
To Mary seide aungel Gabriell.
‘Of alle women blessed thou be!
Concipies Emanuel.’
2
Whenne she hurde this, she dredde and thought,
What greting this was, that he did telle.
The aungell seide: ‘Mary, drede nought;
Concipies Emanuel.
3
Thou hast founde grace, thou mayden myelde,
Before god, that in the dothe dwelle.
Thou shalt conceyve and bere a childe,
Cui nomen Emanuel.
4
He shall be grete and callid shall be
The aungel of full grete counseill.
In Dauid see aye reigne shalle he,
Cui nomen Emanuel.’
5
‘How shalle this be,’ this mayden thanne
Seide, forsothe, vnto the aungelle,
‘Sith I purpose to knowe no man,
Vt pariam Emanuel?’
6
‘The holy goost shalle light in the,
And god shalle shadowe the eche dele:
The sonne of god this childe shal be,
Cui nomen Emanuel.
7
Elizabeth, thy cosyn, loo,
In here age, though it be mervell,
Hath conceyved a childe also:
Concipies Emanuel.’
8
‘Goddes handemayde beholde,’ seide she
To Gabriell, that archaungell.
‘Thy worde in me fulfilled be,
Vt pariam Emanuel.’
9
He toke his leve, that aungel bright,
And went to blisse therin to dwelle,
And she hath borne the king of myght,
Cui nomen Emanuell.
10
Thus it was done, as I haue seide;
As god it wolde, so it befelle:
Of Mary, wyfe, moder and mayde,
Nunc natus est Emanuel.
