This is a new favorite song of mine. It is called Woefully arrayed and is by William Cornysh the Younger (1465-1523), who lived in the period just before England fell away from the faith. The carol puts words in the mouth of our Lord expressing His agony on the Cross.

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Here are the lyrics:



Woefully arrayed

My blood, man for thee ran, it may not be nayed;

My body, blo and wan;

Woefully arrayed.

 

Behold me, I pray thee

with all thy whole reason

and be not hard-hearted,

and for this encheason,

sith I for thy soul sake

was slain in good season,

Beguiled and betrayed

by Judas’ false treason,

unkindly entreated,

with sharp cord sore freted,

the Jєωs me threated,

they mowed, they grinned,

they scorned me,

condem’d to death as thou may’st see;

Woefully arrayed.

 

Thus naked am I nailed.

O man, for thy sake;

I love thee, then love me,

why sleepst thou, awake,

remember my tender heartroot for thee brake;

with pains my veins constrained to crake;

thus tugged to and fro,

thus wrapped all in woe,

whereas never man was so entreated,

thus in most cruel wise

was like a lamb offer’d in sacrifice;

Woefully arrayed.

 

Of sharp thom I have worn

a crown on my head.

So pained, so strained, so rueful, so red,

thus bobbed, thus robbed,

thus for thy love dead;

unfeigned, not deigned,

my blood for to shed,

my feet and handes sore

the sturdy nailes bore;

what might I suffer more,

than I have done, O man, for thee?

Come when thou list, welcome to me!

Woefully arrayed.


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There it is. I had a hard time uploading the video. Interestingly, the depiction in the video is of St. Gregory the Great in that famous scene where he is saying Mass with Christ coming down from the Cross. St. Gregory the Great was the Pope who sent St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to establish the Catholic faith there again.