Version 1

Compare: Jesu, Fili virginis - Version 2

Words: Richard Smert, Before 1529
See Notes under Blessed may Thou be, sweet Jesus

Source: Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols: 1400-1700 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), p. 182.

1. Jesus, of a maid Thou wouldst be born,
To save mankind that was forlorn,
And all for our miss,¹
    Miserere nobis.

2. Born Thou wert of Mary free,
And Thou didst die upon the Rood Tree,
    And all for our miss,
        Miserere nobis.

Note from Rickert:

1. Sin. Return