Whan that my ~wete ~one
Source: Edward Bliss Reed, ed., Christmas Carols Printed in the 16th Century Including Kele's Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932).
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O My hert is wo
Mary dyde ~ay ~o
For to ~e my dere ~one dye
Seyng I haue no mo
Whan that my ~wete ~one
Was .xxx. wynter olde
Than the traytour Judas
He became wonders bolde
For .xxx. plates of money
His may~ter had he ~olde
But whan I wy~t of that
Lorde my herte was colde
O my heart is wo
On ~here thur~day
Truely than thus it was
On my ~ones dethe
That Judas dyd compas
Many were the Jewes
That folowed hym by trace
And before them all
He ky~~ed my ~ones face
O my heart is wo
My ~one before Pylate
Then brought was he
And Peter ~ayd .iii. tymes
He knewe hymn nat parde
Pylate ~ayd to the Jewes
Now what ~ay ye:
They cryed all with one voyce
Crucifige Crucifige.
O my hert is wo.
On good fryday
At the mount of Caluary
My ~one was on the cro~~e
And nayled with nayles thre
Of all the frendes that he had
Neuer one coud he ~e
But gentyll Johan the euangely~t
That ~tyll dyde ~tand hym by
O my hert is wo.
Though I ~orowfull were
No man haue no wonder
For how it was the erth quaked
And horryble was the thonder
I loked vpon my ~wete ~one
The cros that he ~tode vunder
Lungeus came with a long ~pere
And claue his hert a~onder
O my hert is wo
Finis.
Editor's Note:
This is one of the carols that were first printed by Richard Kele, Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted (circa 1550), reprinted in Philip Bliss, Biographical Miscellanies (1813), and included in Edward Bliss Reed, Christmas Carols of the 16th Century, Including Kele's Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932).
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