This text, from a 15th century English manuscript, combines English poetry with quotations from four Latin hymns: Veni creator Spiritus from Pentecost, the Vespers hymn O lux beata Trinitas, A solis ortus cardine from a Christmas hymn, and Gloria tibi, Domine, from the hymn the angels sang to the shepherds. The (lightly modernized) text runs:
A babe is born all of a may (maiden)
To bring salvation unto us.
To him we sing both night and day:
Veni creator Spiritus.
At Bethlehem, that blessed place,
That child of bliss now born he was;
And him to serve God give us grace:
O lux beata Trinitas.
There came three kings out of the East
To worship the King that is so free (noble)
With gold and myrrh and frankincense:
A solis ortus cardine.
The herdes (shepherds) hearden (heard) an angel’s cry,
A merry song then sungen (sang) he.
“Why are ye all so sore aghast?”
Jam solis ortus cardine.
The angels came down with one cry,
A merry song then sungen (sang) they,
All in the worship of that child:
Gloria tibi, Domine!