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Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse

from Christmas in Medieval England by Blue Heron

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Nowel, nowel nowel!
Owt of your slepe aryse and wake,
For God mankynd nowe hath ytake, (For God has now taken on humankind)
Al of a maide without eny make; (eny make = any mate)
Of al women she bereth the belle. (bereth the belle = is the most excellent)

And thorwe a maide fair and wys (thorwe = through)
Now man is made of ful grete pris; (pris = worth)
Now angelys knelen to mannys servys,
And at this tyme al this byfel. (this time = e.g. Christmastime)

Now man is bryghter than the sonne,
Now man in heven an hye shal wone; (Now man in heaven on high shall dwell)
Blessyd be God this game is begonne, (game = action, sequence of events)
And his moder emperesse of helle.

That ever was thralle, now ys he fre; (He who was in thrall forever is now free)
That ever was smalle, now grete is she;
Now shal God deme bothe the and me (deme = judge)
Unto hys blysse, yf we do wel. (do wel = act righteously)

Now, blessyd brother, graunte us grace (blessed brother = i.e. Christ)
A domesday to se thy face (A domesday = at Judgment Day)
And in thy courte to have a place,
That we mow there synge Nowel! (mow = may)

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from Christmas in Medieval England, released October 9, 2015

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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