This tyme is born a chyld ful good
Words and Music:
Traditional English
(From MS. Sloan 2593, fol. 75, r0)
Source: Thomas Wright, Specimens of old Christmas Carols, Selected from Manuscripts and Printed Books (London: The Percy Society, 1841)
This carol requires
the installation of the "Junius Modern" font for best display.
See notes in F A Q
Compare: Man, Be Merry As Bird On Berry (Rickert)
Man, be merie as bryd on berie, and all thi care let away
This tyme is born a chyld ful good,
He that us bowt upon the rod
He bond the devyl, that is so wod,
Til the drydful domys-day.
Quan the chyld of meche myõt
Wold be born of Mary bryõt,
A token he sent to kynge and knyõt,
A sterre that schon bothe nyzt and day.
The sterre scon as bryõt as fer,
Over al the wold, bothe fer and ner,
In tokene he was with-outyn per,
And pereles he xal lastyn ay.
The .viij. day he was circumsise,
For to fulfylle the profecye,
The profetes with wordes wyse
Hymn present with ryche a-ray.
The .xij. day come kynges thre
Out of the Est, with herte fre,
To worchepyn hym thei knelyd on kne,
With gold and myrre and francincens.
