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Now God almighty down hath sent
A Christmas carol — three monorhyming quatrains plus 7-line burden (aabbccb, of which apparently only last five lines repeated after the quatrains): ‘Now make we merthe al & sum / ffor cristemesse now is i-com / þat hath no pere / Syng we alle in fere / Now ioye & blysse / þei xul not mysse / þat makyth good chere’
Subjects: carols, Nativity
Versification: — four-line — aaaa



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.3.58 (1230), (a roll), item 8
First Lines:
Now god almythy doun hath sent
the holy gost to be present…
Last Lines:
…To pray for us we be not schent
To ihesu crist here sone so ient
Editions:
Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander, and William Smyth Rockstro. English Carols of the Fifteenth Century. London: Leadenhall Press; New York: Scribner’s, 1891: 17.
Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 16; 1977, 11-12.
Rickert, Edith, ed. Ancient English Christmas Carols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1910: 204-5.
Stevens, John, ed. Mediaeval Carols. Musica Britannica 4. London: Stainer and Bell, 1952, 2nd ed. 1958: 7.
Robbins, Rossell Hope. Early English Christmas Carols. New York and London: Columbia UP, 1961: 22.