In This Time Christ Hath Us Sent

DESCRIPTION: "In this time Christ hath us sent, His own son to be present, To dwell with us in verament, God, that is our savior." He was born in an ox's stall. The shepherds came. The star shone. So "Man, be glad in hall and bower"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1537 (Hill MS., Balliol Coll. Oxf. 354)
KEYWORDS: religious Jesus MiddleEnglish
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REFERENCES (8 citations):
Greene-TheEarlyEnglishCarols, #27, pp. 19-20, "(no title)" (3 texts)
Rickert-AncientEnglishChristmasCarols, pp. 47-48, "(Man, be glad in hall and bower)" (1 text)
Brown/Robbins-IndexOfMiddleEnglishVerse, #1575
DigitalIndexOfMiddleEnglishVerse #2641
ADDITIONAL: Roman Dyboski, Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace Book , Kegan Paul, 1907 (there are now multiple print-on-demand reprints), #11, p. 7, "(Make we mery in hall & bowr)" (1 text, with an additional text on p. 170)
MANUSCRIPT: {MSRichardHill}, The Richard Hill Manuscript, Oxford, Balliol College MS. 354, p. 461
MANUSCRIPT: {MSSloane2593}, London, British Library, MS. Sloane 2593, folio 24
MANUSCRIPT: London, British Library, MS. Royal 20 A.I, folio 120
NOTES [84 words]: Although no longer found in tradition, it is foundin two very important manuscripts. It is in the Hill MS. (Balliol College, Oxford, 354) and in Sloane MS. 2593, an important collection which contains many folk songs. (The British Library Royal manuscript is less important and has only a few scraps of poetry). I am not sure this is a folk song, but its credentials are strong enough to tentatively include it.
For more on manuscript Sloane 2593, see the notes to "Robyn and Gandeleyn" [Child 115]. - RBW
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