Welcome be this ble~~ed fe~te
For Christmas
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In a Middle English font: Welcome be this blessed feste
Source: Edward Bliss Reed, ed., Christmas Carols Printed in the 16th Century Including Kele's Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932).
O ble~~ed & maruelous natyuyte
Of goddes ~onne in dyuynyte
Welcome be this ble~~ed fe~te
Of goddes ~onne in dyuynyte
That is refourmer of our re~t
Longe peace and charyty
O ble~~ed. &c.
In tyme of peace this chylde was born
As was ~hewed in prophe~y
To ~aue mankynde that was forlorne
For kynge of peace he is truly
O ble~~ed. &c.
Borne maruelou~ly he was
Full of grace and dyuynyte
And ~he a mayden neuer the le~~e
And ~o was neuer non but ~he
O ble~~ed. &c.
Therfore pray to that lorde
And to his mother that mayden free
To make vs wy~e in worde & ded
To pray~e & plea~e his deyte
O maruelous. &c.
Finis.
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