OXFORD, Owen Rees, Lucy Wakeford A Ceremony of Carols: III. There is no rose

There is no rose of such vertu
As is the rose that bare Jesu
Alleluia.

For in this rose conteinèd was
Heaven and earth in litel space
Res miranda.

By that rose we may we see
There be one God in persons three
Pares forma

The aungels sungen the shepherds to
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gaudeamus

Leave we all this werdly mirth
And follow we this joyful birth
Transeamus