Part 9
O te laudum millibus Laudo, laudo, laudo; Tantis mirabilibus Plaudo, plaudo, plaudo: Gloria, sit gloria, Amanti memoria Domino in altis: Cui testimonia Dantur et praeconia Coelicis a psaltis. JOHN MAUBURN
118. ADESTE FIDELES
Adeste fideles, Laeti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem; Natum videte, Regem angelorum, Venite, adoremus Dominum.
Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, Gestant puellae viscera, Deum verum, Genitum non factum; Venite, adoremus Dominum.
En, grege relicto Humiles ad cunas Vocati pastores approperant; Et nos ovanti Gradu festinemus, Venite, adoremus Dominum,
Stella duce, Magi Christum adorantes, Aurum, thus, et myrrham dant munera; Jesu infanti Corda praebeamus: Venite, adoremus Dominum.
Aeterni Parentis Splendorem aeternum Velatum sub carne videbimus, Deum infantem Pannis involutum; Venite, adoremus Dominum.
Pro nobis egenum Et faeno cubantem Piis foveamus amplexibus; Sic nos amantem Quis non redamaret? Venite, adoremus Dominum.
Cantet nunc hymnos. Chorus angelorum, Cantet nunc aula caelestium:— Gloria In excelsis Deo: Venite, adoremus Dominum.
Ergo qui natus Die hodierna, Jesu, tibi sit gloria Patris aeterni Verbum caro factum! Venite, adoremus Dominum.
119. CORDE NATUS EX PARENTIS
Corde natus ex Parentis Ante mundi exordium, Alpha et oo cognominatus, Ipse fons et clausula Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, Quaeque post futura sunt Saeculorum saeculis.
Ecce quem vates vetustis Concinebant saeculis, Quem prophetarum fideles Paginae spoponderant, Emicat promissus olim, Cunctaque collaudent Deum Saeculorum saeculis.
O beatus ortus ille, Virgo cum puerpera Edidit nostram salutem Feta sancto Spiritu, Et puer Redemptor orbis Os sacratum protulit Saeculorum saeculis.
Psallat altitudo caeli, Psallant omnes angeli, Quicquid est virtutis usquam Psallat in laudem Dei; Nulla linguarum silescat, Vox et omnis personet Saeculorum saeculis.
Te senes, et te juventus, Parvulorum te cohors, Turba matrum, virginumque Simplices puellulae, Voce concordes pudicis Perstrepant concentibus Saeculorum saeculis.
Tibi, Christe, sit cum Patre Agioque Spiritu, Hymnus, melos, laus perennis, Gratiarum actio, Honor, virtus, et victoria, Regnum, aeternaliter Saeculorum saeculis. PRUDENTIUS
120. AVE JESU, DEUS MAGNE
Ave Jesu, Deus magne Ave Puer, mitis agne, Ave Deus, homo nate In praesepi reclinate! O potestas, O egestas. O majestas Domini! O majestas, quidnon praestas homini?
Ut me pauperem ditares, Ut me perditum salvares, Jaces pannis involutus, Omni ope destitutus. O potestas, &c.
Inter bruta quam abjectus Vagis, patris O dilectus! Judex summe, verus Deus, Propter me fis homo reus! O potestas, &c.
O mi Jesu, cor devotum Post te trahe, sume totum, Igne tuo sancto ure, Ah ah penitus combure. O potestas, &c.
Procul vanas hinc amores Procul malos arce mores, Tuis meos aptos finge, Aeterno me nexu stringe O potestas, &c.
121. NOWELL, NOWELL, NOWELL
_Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,_ _Missus est ad virginem angelus Gabriel._
Angelum misit suum Deus omnipotens, Ut unicum per filium ejus salvetur gens. Virgo ave, clamat ille, O Maria clemens, Concipies et paries, virgo semper manens.
Virgo clam tremescit, nam mira valde audit, Eam cui est ille missus confortavit. Altissimi Patris tui virtus obumbravit, Cui per flamen sacrum gramen in te seminavit.
Virgo clemens semper tremens ad verba angeli, Cui flamen consolamen dat responsum illi, Miti voce dicens, Ecce ancilla Domini, Et secundum tuum verbum, ita fiat mihi.
Virgo Deum genuit verbum, quem alit cum cura, Mirus Pater, mira Mater, mira Genitura; Parit virgo solo verbo contra carnis jura, Perseverante post et ante virgine pura.
Nobis natus, nobis datus, quem virgo lactavit, Atque gregi, sic sub lege cunctaque creavit, Miti corde nos a sorde moriendo lavit; Miserere plebi tuae, Jhesu fili Davit.
Virgo pin, O Maria, pura ut lilia Sponsa Dei, soror ei, mater et filia, Tu Hunc ores, viatores ut fugiant vilia, Et nos trahant huc quo gaudent sanctorum milia.
O Pater qui genuisti Hunc ab initio, Et dedisti gentes Isti, pregaudens sacrificio, Hic cum venit quos redemit sanguinis precio Judicare, fac vitare nos a supplicio.
INDEX OF AUTHORS
Beaumont, Sir John, 31. Beaumont, Joseph, 46, 47. Belloc, Hilaire, 84. Bolton, Edmund, 30. Bridges, Robert, 83, 112. Byrom, John, 59.
Campion, Thomas, 109. Chesterton, Frances, 91. Chesterton, G. K., 85. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 62-4. Crashaw, Richard, 41-3.
Davidson, John, 114. Doddridge, Philip, 60. Domett, Alfred, 68. Donne, John, 27. Drummond, William, 32, 33. Dunbar, William, 22.
Fletcher, Giles, 35, 36.
Gales, R. L., 86, 87.
Hall, Joseph, 28. Hardy, Thomas, 90. Hawker, R. S., 75, 76. Heber, Reginald, 65. Herbert, George, 39. Herrick, Robert, 37, 38, 105-8. Hopkins, Gerard, 78. Horne, Herbert P., 80.
Image, Selwyn, 79.
J., M., 48. Jonson, Ben, 29.
Keppel, Francis, 92. Kingsley, Charles, 70.
Lang, Andrew, 113.
Mauburn, John, 117. Meynell, Alice, 82. Milton, John, 40. Morris, William, 72-4.
Neale, J. M., 69.
Patmore, Coventry, 77. Pellow, J. D. C., 89. Prudentius, 119.
Rossetti, Christina, 71.
Sayers, Dorothy L., 88. Scott, Sir Walter, 111. Sherburne, Sir Edward, 51. Southwell, Robert, 23-6. Stevenson, R. L., 81.
Tate, Nahum, 56. Taylor, Jeremy, 44, 45. Tennyson, Alfred, 67.
Unknown, 1-21, 52-5, 93-103, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121.
Vaughan, Henry, 49, 50. Vere, Aubrey de, 66.
Watts, Isaac, 57, 58. Wesley, Charles, 61. Wither, George, 34, 104.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
NO. Adeste fideles, 118 A frosty Christmas Eve, 83 All after pleasures as I rid one day, 39 Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, now sing we, 97 All this time this song is best, 13 And art Thou come, blest Babe, and come to me? 55 A shape, like folded light, embodied air, 75 As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, 23 As Joseph was a-walking, 3 As on the night before this happy morn, 35 Ave Jesu, Deus magne, 120 Ave maris stella, 16 Awake, glad heart, get up and sing! 50 Awake, my soul, and come away, 45
Behold a silly tender Babe, 24 Between the moonlight and the fire, 113 Be we merry in this feast, 11 Bright Babe! whose awful beauties make, 43 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! 65 But art Thou come, dear Saviour? hath Thy love, 52
Can I not sing but Hoy! 9 Caput apri defero, 101 Christians, awake, salute the happy morn, 59 Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock, 90 Christ was born on Christmas day, 69 Come, bring with a noise, 105 Come, guard this night the Christmas pie, 105 Come to your heaven, you heavenly quires! 25 Come we shepherds whose blest sight, 41 Consider, O my soul, what morn is this! 79 Corde natus ex Parentis, 119
Dormi, Jesu! mater ridet, 64
Eya, Jesus hodie, 15
Fair eastern star, that art ordained to run, 31
Given, not lent, 82 Give way, give way, ye gates, and win, 106 God rest you merry, gentlemen, 19
Happy crib, that wert alone, 51 Hark! how all the welkin rings, 61 Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes, 60 Heaven’s golden-wingèd herald late he saw, 42 Herdmen hend, Dread ye no thing, 8 Heu quid jaces stabulo, 117 Hey, hey, hey, hey, 100 Holly and Ivy made a great party, 96 How far is it to Bethlehem? 91 Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, 58
Immensity, cloistered in thy dear womb, 27 Immortal Babe, who this dear day, 28 In holly hedges starving birds, 114 In numbers, and but these few, 38 In the bleak mid-winter, 71 I saw three ships come sailing in, 21 I sing of a maiden, 2 I sing the birth was born to-night, 29 It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve, 70 It is the longest night in all the year, 74 It was the calm and silent night, 68 Ivy chief of trees it is, 98
Let folly praise that fancy loves, 26 Like as the fountain of all light created, 47 Lodged in an inn, 53 Lullay, my liking, my dear son, my sweeting, 6
Make we merry both more and less, 95 Man, be joyful and mirth thou make, 94 Man, be merry as bird on berry, 12 Mater, ora filium, 14
Nay, ivy, nay, 99 Noël, Noël, Noël, Noël, 17 No news of navies burnt at seas, 108 Nowel, nowel, nowel, nowel, Tidings good, 102 Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell, Missus est, 121 Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Who is there, 93 Now have good day, now have good day! 115 Now is Christëmas ycome, 4 Now, now the mirth comes, 107 Now winter nights enlarge, 109
Of a rose, a lovely rose, 18 Oh, brother Juniper, come out and play, 89 Oh! what great thing is done to-night, 87 On a winter’s night long time ago, 84 O than the fairest day, thrice fairer night! 33 Outlanders, whence come ye last? 73
Proface, welcome, welcome, proface, 103 Puer natus in Bethlehem, 116
Remember, O thou man, 20 Rorate Coeli desuper! 22 Run, shepherds, run, where Bethlehem blest appears, 32
Saint Stephen was a clerk, 7 Say, did his Sisters wonder what could Joseph see, 77 She gave with joy her virgin breast, 63 Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes, 57 So now is come our joyful’st feast, 104 Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear? 34 Sweet, harmless live{r}s! on whose holy leisure, 49 Sweet music, sweeter far, 30
The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, 85 The damsel donn’d her kirtle sheen, 111 The Ox said to the Ass, said he, all on a Christmas night, 88 The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand, 81 The shepherds went their hasty way, 62 The time draws near the birth of Christ, 67 They leave the land of gems and gold, 66 This endris night, 5 This is the month, and this the happy morn, 40 To Bethlem did they go, the shepherds three, 72 To shorten winter’s sadness, 110
Waes-hael for knight and dame! 76 Wake, what unusual light doth greet, 80 Wash your hands, or else the fire, 105 Wassail the trees, that they may bear, 105 Welcome Yule, thou merry man, 1 What sweeter music can we bring, 37 When Christ was born of Mary free, 10 Where is this blessed Babe, 44 Where Mary keeps her court, 86 While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night, 56 Who can forget—never to be forgot, 36 Why does the frowning winter smile, 48 Wild air, world-mothering air, 78 Winter was not unkind because uncouth, 112 With a long train of camels following them, 92 Wonder’s birthday, 46
Yet if his majesty our sovereign Lord, 54