Words from two Greek Troparia for December 22), translated by G. R. W. Tune of a Galiardo, with Setting by Dr. John Bull (1563-1628)
Notes and Source: George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #92
For Tenor or Treble voice.
Dawn of
Jacob's star inciteth
Easterlings to pay their due
To Babe
Jesu.
As Saint Mathew
Enditeth.
Of a
Maiden in a byer
Hastenth Christ to spring to birth.
Let
heavnly mirth
Attune, O earth,
Thy Quyer! [1]
1. Note from Woodward: “Elizabethan way of spelling byre and quire. Return
Sheet Music from George
Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas,
Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray &
Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #92
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