All this time

All this time this song is best:
‘Verbum caro factum est.’

This night there is a child y-born
That sprang out of Jesse’s thorn;
We must sing and sy thereforn:

All this time...

Jesus is the childes name,
And Mary mild is this dame;
All our sorrow shall turn to game:

All this time...

It fell upon high midnight:
The starres shone both fair and bright;
The angels sang with all their might:

All this time...

Anonymous, 16th Century