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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="394" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 8 -->
<HEAD>Two plea&s;ant Ditties, one of the Birth, the other of the Pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of Dulcina. Of Natiuity.</OPENER>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L><HI>IVry</HI> came to <HI>Ieru-&s;alem,</HI></L>
<L>(all the world was taxed then)</L>
<L>Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Mary</HI> brought to <HI>Bethelem,</HI></L>
<L>more then all the world agen:</L>
<L>A gift &s;o ble&s;t,</L>
<L>So good, the be&s;t</L>
<L>that ere was &s;eene, was heard or done,</L>
<L>A King, a Chri&s;t,</L>
<L>Prophet, and Prie&s;t:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>a Ie&s;us, God, a Man, a Sonne.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Happie night, a day was neuer,</L>
<L>halfe &s;o happie &s;weet and faire:</L>
<L>Singing Soldiers (ble&s;&s;ed euer)</L>
<L>fill the skie with &s;weete&s;t ayre.</L>
<L>Amaz'd men feare,</L>
<L>They &s;ee, they heare.</L>
<L>yet doubt and aske how this was done:</L>
<L>T'was bid, be bold,</L>
<L>It was fore told,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>this night hath God him&s;elfe a Son,</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There appeares a golden V&s;her,</L>
<L>Kings attending in their traine:</L>
<L>The bright Sun could not out blu&s;h her,</L>
<L>&s;uch a Star ner'e &s;hone againe.</L>
<L>See now it &s;taies,</L>
<L>Seeming it &s;ayes,</L>
<L>Goe in and &s;ee, what there is done,</L>
<L>A Child who&s;e birth,</L>
<L>Leagues heauen and earth,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Ie&s;us to vs, to God a Sonne.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Subtill <HI>Herod</HI> &s;ought to find him,</L>
<L>with a purpo&s;e blacke as hell:</L>
<L>But a greater power confin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d him,</L>
<L>and his purpo&s;e did repell:</L>
<L>Who &s;hould betray,</L>
<L>Doe al obey,</L>
<L>as fitting was it &s;hould be done:</L>
<L>They al adore,</L>
<L>And kneele before,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>this God and Man, to God a Sonne.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Twas vpon a Commets blazing,</L>
<L><HI>Cuma</HI> to <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> &s;aid,</L>
<L>This fore-&s;hewes an act amazing:</L>
<L>for a Mother &s;till a maid,</L>
<L>A Babe &s;hall beare,</L>
<L>That al mu&s;t feare,</L>
<L>and &s;uddenly it mu&s;t be done:</L>
<L>Nay <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> thou,</L>
<L>To him mu&s;t bow,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>hee's God, a Man, to God a Sonne.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Is not this a ble&s;&s;ed wonder,</L>
<L>God is Man, and Man is God:</L>
<L>Fooli&s;h Iewes mi&s;tooke the thunder,</L>
<L>&s;hould proclaime this King abroad.</L>
<L>Angels they &s;ing,</L>
<L>Behold the King,</L>
<L>in <HI>Bethelem</HI> where this was done:</L>
<L>Then we as they,</L>
<L>Reioyce and &s;ay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>We haue a Sauiour, God a Sonne.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB N="395" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 8 -->
<HEAD>The &s;econd part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>TVrne your eyes that are affixed</L>
<L>on this worlds deceuing things:</L>
<L>And with ioyes and &s;orrowes mixed,</L>
<L>looke vpon the King of Kings,</L>
<L>Who let his throwne:</L>
<L>With ioyes vnknowne:</L>
<L>tooke fle&s;h like ours, like vs drew breath</L>
<L>For vs to die,</L>
<L>Heere fixe our eye,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>and thinke vpon his precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See him in the garden praying,</L>
<L>while his &s;ad Di&s;ciples &s;lept:</L>
<L>See him in the Garden &s;weating</L>
<L>drops of blood and how he wept:</L>
<L>As man he was,</L>
<L>He wept (alas)</L>
<L>and trembling feare to loo&s;e his breath,</L>
<L>Yet to heauens will,</L>
<L>He yeelded &s;till:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>then thinke vpon his precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See him by the Souldiers taken,</L>
<L>when with <HI>Aue</HI> and a ki&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>He that Heauen had quite for&s;aken,</L>
<L>had betrayd him and with this,</L>
<L>Behold him (bound</L>
<L>And garded round)</L>
<L>to <HI>Caiphas</HI> borne to loo&s;e his breath,</L>
<L>There &s;ee the Iewes</L>
<L>Heauens King abu&s;e:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>O thinke vpon his precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See him in the hands of <HI>Pilat,</HI></L>
<L>like a ba&s;e offender &s;tript:</L>
<L>See the moane, and teares they &s;mile at,</L>
<L>while they &s;ee our Sauiour whipt.</L>
<L>Behold him bleed,</L>
<L>His purple weede</L>
<L>record, while you haue life and breath,</L>
<L>His taunts and &s;cornes,</L>
<L>His Crowne of thornes,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>or thinke vpon his precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See him in the howre of parting,</L>
<L>hanging on his bloody Cro&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>See his wounds, conceiue his &s;marting,</L>
<L>and our gaine, by his liues lo&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>On either &s;ide</L>
<L>A Fellow died,</L>
<L>the one derides him leauing breath:</L>
<L>The other prayes,</L>
<L>And humbly &s;aies:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>O &s;aue me by thy precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>See as in the&s;e pangs he thir&s;ted,</L>
<L>and that heat to coole did call,</L>
<L>How the&s;e Iewes (like <HI>Iudas</HI> cur&s;ed)</L>
<L>bring him vinegar and gall,</L>
<L>His &s;pirit then,</L>
<L>To Heauen agen,</L>
<L>commending with his late&s;t breath,</L>
<L>The world he leaues,</L>
<L>That man deceaues:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>O thinke vpon his precious death.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed by the A&s;&s;ignes of Thomas Symcocke.</P>
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