When Cryst was born of Mary fre

Words and Music: Traditional English
(From MS. Harl, No. 5396, fol 4. r⁰, of the beginning of the sixteenth century)

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When Cryst was born of Mary fre,
In Bedlem in that fayre cyté,
Angellis song ther with myrth and gle,
in excelsis gloria.

Herdmen beheld thes angellis bry3t,
To hem apperyd wyth gret ly3t,
And seyd, 'Goddys sone is born this ny3t,"
in excelsis gloria.

Thys keng ys comyn to save kynde,
As yn scripturas we fynde,
Therfore this song we in mynde,
in excelsis gloria.

Then, Lord, for thy gret grace,
Graunt us the blys to se thy face,
Where we may syng to thy solas,
in excelsis gloria!