The Cambridge Carol Book/Jesu, maltreated

by anon

XXXIX. JESU, MALTREATED

(O dulcis Jesus)

Jesu, maltreated, roughly greeted,
With repeated scoff and blow,
O spare us, young or hoary!
Who foughtest knightly,
And didst rightly
Quell th' unsightly fiend our foe,
And now art clad with glory.
From hell-gate, long their prison,
Thy people Thou unchainest;
And Thou, the third day risen,
As King supreme remainest.

O dulcis Jesus, spinis laesus,
Flagris caesus asperis,
Velis placatus fore!
Qui lux de luce,
Victo duce,
Pendens cruce sceleris,
Indutus es splendore,
Inferni portas urgens,
Inde tuos duxisti,
Post triduum resurgens,
Mundi Victor fuisti.