Tydynges I Bryng 3ow For To Tell
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 #20, 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.
See: The
Boar's Head Carols
Compare: Tidings I Bring You
For To Tell (Husk, 1868)
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Tydnges I bring 3ow for to tell,
What me in wyld forest befell,
Whan mu must with a wyld best mell,
With a bor so bryme.
A bor so bryme that me pursued,
Me for to kyll so sharply ameved,
That brymly best so cruell and unryd,
There tamyd I hym,
And ret fro hym both lyth and lyme.
Truly to shew 3ow that is trew,
Hys hed with my swerd I hew,
To make this day to 3ow myrth new,
Now estes thereof anon.
Etys, on much good do yt 3ow,
Take 3ow bred and musterd therto,
Joy with me that I have thus done,
I pray 3ow to be glad everychon,
And joy all in one.
Note from Wright:
This one and the one given on p. 42 [
