All mydle erthe it shall fulfyll
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Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter
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).
[Opening Stanza Missing From Source]
This voyce both sharp and also (damage)
Shall be herd from heuen to (damage)
All mydle erthe it shall fulfyll
Uenite ad iudicium.
A voyce. etc.
Uenite is a blyssed song
For them that for ioye dooth longe
And shall forsake paynes strong
Uenite ad iudicium
A voyce. etc.
Glad in hert may they be
Whan Chryst sayeth Uenite
Ye blyssed chyldren come to me
Into vitam eternam
A voyce. etc.
Whan I hongred ne gaue me meat
Ye clothed me agaynst the weat
In trouble ye dyde me not forgeat
Uenite ad iudicium
A voyce. etc.
Ye socoured me at your doore
And for my sake gaue to the poore
(The)rfore wyll I you socoore
Uenite ad iudicium.
A voyce. etc.
Sory in hert may they be
That hereth this heuy worde, Jte
Ye cursed chyldren go fro me
In to ignem eternum
A voyce. etc.
Whan for nede that I dyde crye
Confortlesse ye lete me dye
Therfore now I you deny
Uenite ad iudicium
A voyce. etc.
For by me ye set no store
Ye shall abye ryght dere therfore
In hell with deuyls for euermore
Uenite ad iudicium
A voyce. etc.
Finis.
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