Corde natus ex parentis Te senes, et te juventus, Perstrepant concentibus Saeculorum saeculis. Tibi, Christe, sit cum Patre Hymnus, melos, laus perennis, Honor, virtus, et victoria, Regnum, aeternaliter Saeculorum saeculis. PRUDENTIUS 120. AVE JESU, DEUS MAGNE VE Jesu, Deus magne AVE A Ave Puer, mitis agne, Ave Deus, homo nate In praesepi reclinate! O potestas, O egestas. O majestas, quidnon praestas homini? Ut me pauperem ditares, Ut me perditum salvares, O potestas, &c. Inter bruta quam abjectus O mi Jesu, cor devotum Post te trahe, sume totum, Ah ah penitus combure. Procul vanas hinc amores Aeterno me nexu stringe O potestas, &c. 121. NOWELL, NOWELL, NOWELL ́OWELL, nowell, nowell, nowell, Missus est ad virginem angelus Gabriel. Virgo clam tremescit, nam mira valde audit, Cui per flamen sacrum gramen in te seminavit. Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Virgo clemens semper tremens ad verba angeli, Virgo Deum genuit verbum, quem alit cum cura, Nobis natus, nobis datus, quem virgo lactavit, Virgo pia, O Maria, pura ut lilia O Pater qui genuisti Hunc ab initio, INDEX OF FIRST LINES Adeste fideles A frosty Christmas Eve All after pleasures as I rid one day Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, now sing we All this time this song is best NO. 118 83 39 97 13 And art Thou come, blest Babe, and come to me? A shape, like folded light, embodied air As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow Be we merry in this feast 55 75 23 3 35 120 16 50 45 24 113 II 43 Bright Babe! whose awful beauties make Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! But art Thou come, dear Saviour? hath Thy love. |