Whan the aungell Aue began
For the Annunciation
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In a Middle English font: Whan the aungell Aue began
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).
Whan the aungell Aue began
Fle~~he and blode togyder ran
Mary bare bothe god and man
Through the vertue of benygnyte.
So ~ayth the go~pell of ~aynt Johan
God and man is made bothe one
In fle~~he and breed, blode and bone
One god in per~ones thre.
And the prophete Jeremy
Tolde in his prophecy
That the ~one of Mary
For us ~holde dye on tree.
He hath Joye to you graunted
And in erth peace hath plaunted
Whan yborne was that faynted
In the londe of Galilee
Mary graunt vs the bly~~e
Where thy ~one dwellynge is
And of that we haue done amy~~e
Thou pray for vs for charyte.
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