17.
Alleluya, alleluya, alleluya, [ 21b.]
alleluya, alleluya, alleluya.
A nywe werk is come on honde
þorw myȝt & grace of Godys sonde:
to saue þe lost of euery londe. [ 5]
For now is fre þat erst was bonde;
we mowe wel synge, alleluya.
By Gabriel by-gunne hit was;
ryȝt as the sunne shone thorwe the glas,
Ihesu Cryst conceyued was [ 10]
of Mary moder, ful of grace.
Nowe synge we here, alleluya.
Nowe is fulfylled the prophecie
o[f] Dauid and of Jeremie
and al-so of Ysaie. [ 15]
Synge we ther-fore, bothe loude & hye, alleluya, alleluya.
Simeon, on his armys ryȝt,
clypped Ihesu ful of myȝt,
and sayde unto þat barne so bryȝt: [ 20]
'Y see my Sauyour in syȝt';
and songe thor-with, alleluya.
Tho he saide with-oute lece:
'Lorde þou seite thy seruant in pece,
for nowe Y haue þat Y euer chece [ 25]
alle oure ioyes to encrece,
ther seyntes syngeth, alleluya.
Alleluya, this swete songe,
oute of a grene branche hit spronge.