Old English Carol: words and tune from the Bodleian Library (Seldon MS.): cf. Add. MS., 5665, in the British Museum. Harmonized by the Rev. G. R. Woodward.
Notes and Source: George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1901, Revised and Expanded Edition), Carol #27
Compare: Make we jow in this fest (Thomas Wright, 1847)
Make We Joy In This Feast (From Edith Rickert, 1914)
Refrain
Make we joy now in this fest
In quo Christus natus est. Eya.
1. A Patre Unigenitus
Is through a maiden come to us:
Sing we of Him and say Welcome,
Veni, Redemptor gencium. Refrain
2. Agnoscat omne seculum,
A bright star made three kings come,
Him for to seek with their presen's,
Verbum supernum prodiens. Refrain
3. A solis ortus cardine
So mighty a Lord is None as He;
And to our kind He hath Him knit,
Adam parens quod olluit. Refrain
4. Maria ventre concepit,
The Holy Ghost was ay her with,
Of her in Bethlem born He is,
Consors paterni luminis. Refrain
5. O lux beata Trinitas,
He lay between an ox and ass,
Beside His mother maiden tree,
Gloria tibi, Domine. Refrain
Sheet Music from George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1902, Revised and Expanded Edition 1929), Carol #27
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