Nowel Syng We

Nowel sing we now all and some, For Rex pacificus is come.

	1.	In Bethl'em in that fair city, A child was born of a maiden free, That shall a Lord and Prince be, A solis ortus cardine.		2	Children were slain full great plenty, Jesu, for the love of Thee, Wherefore their soulës savëd be Hostis Herodes impie.
	3.	As the sun shineth through the glass, So Jesu in His mother was, Thee to serve now grant us grace, O lux beata Trinitas.		4.	Now God is come to honour us Now of Mary is born Jesus, Make we merry among us, Exultet coelum laudibus.    - modern version by J.A. Fuller Maitland

Rex pacificus - The King of Peace
A solis ortus cardine - From the rising of the sun
Hostis Herodes impie - Herod thou wicked foe
O lux beata Trinitas - O Trinity most blessed light
Exultet coelum laudibus - Let heaven rejoice with praises

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MAITLAND 6 §0505
English, 15th Century from a MS. Roll in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge
English Carols of the Fifteenth Century, edited by J.A. Fuller Maitland; Leadenhall Press, 1891
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