Gabryell of Hy3e Degree
Words and Music: Traditional English
Source: Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (London: The Percy Society, 1847), Song #31, printed verbatim from a manuscript probably owned by a professional musician, and apparently written in the latter half of the fifteenth century, circa 1471-1485.
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See notes in F A Q
Nova, nova, ave fit ex Eva.
Gabryell of hy3e degree,
Cam down from the Trenyte,
To Nazareth in Galilee,
With nova.
He fond the mayd al in hyr place,
He knelyd down befor hir face,
And seyd, Al heyl, full of grace,
With nova.
Thou shalt conseyve and her a chyld,
Thou3 thou with syn wer never defylyd;
Thou hast fond grace, thou Mary myld,
With nova.
The byrd abasshyd of all ble,
Answerd and seyd, How may this be?
Man thorow kynd towchyd never me,
With nova.
The angell seyd unto that free,
The holy gost shal ly3t in the,
God and man in on shal be,
With nova.
Syx monthys is ner gon,
Syn Ely3abeth conseyvyd Johan;
She that was barren a babe have borrne,
With nova.
The ree.....d unto the fere,
Now hys we....e don in me here,
And Godes maydyn now se me here,
With nova.
Notes from Wright:
The manuscript was here a little torn; the letters in Italics are supplied by conjecture; the few lacunes marked by dots I have not ventured to supply in this manner.
