Dost thou in a manger lie

Dost thou in a manger lie. Jean Mauburn* (ca 1460-1503), translated by Elizabeth Rundle Charles* (1828-1896). The Latin text was in Mauburn’s Rosetum Exercitiorum Spiritualium (1491), a compilation for the laity associated with the Confraternity of the Rosary. It had 13 verses, of which Charles translated three (4, 5, 11) in The Voice of Christian Life in Song (1858). These had ten lines each. The first describes the Christ child in the manger: ‘Heu quid jaces stabulo’, beginning: Dost thou in a manger lie, Who hast all created, Stretching infant hands on high, Saviour long awaited.... The second, ‘Istuc amor gentis’, is the voice of Jesus responding (‘Vox Jesu respondentis’),...