This Endris Night

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"This Endris Night" (also "Thys Endris Night", "Thys Ender Night" or "The Virgin and Child"{{cite web|url=http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/this_endris_night.htm|title=This Endris Night|author=Hymns and Carols of Christmas|accessdate=2011-03-08}}) is a 15th-century English Christmas carol.{{cite web|url=https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/25684/UBC_1984_A1_5%20K83.pdf?sequence=1|title=On Performing Wolf: Problems Inherent in the "Geistliche Lieder" from the Spanisches Liederbuch|year=1976|author=Margaret Louise Kuhl|accessdate=2011-03-08|publisher=University of British Columbia, Department of Music}} It has also appeared under various other spellings. Two versions from the 15th-century survive, one republished in Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols Now First Printed, From a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (London: The Percy Society, 1847), and the other in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, Scotland,{{cite web|url=http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/this_endris_nyghth.htm|author=Hymns and Carols of Christmas|accessdate=2011-03-08|title=Thys endrys nygth - Thomas Wright}} a legal deposit belonging to the Faculty of Advocates, a role which was assumed by the National Library of Scotland from 1925 onwards. All non-legal collections were given to the National Library.

It has been praised for the unusual delicacy and lyrical flourish for a poem of the period.

The opening lyrics, in the Wright edition, are:[https://archive.org/stream/songsandcarolsn00wriggoog#page/n30/mode/2up Scan of original from archive.org]

:Thys endris nyȝth

:I saw a syȝth,

::A stare as bryȝt as day;

:And ever among

:A mayden song

::Lullay, by by, lullay.