Hymns from the Paris Breviary for Sundays after the Epiphany Octave - 1st Vespers

There are several hymns in the Paris Breviary for Sundays after Epiphany and before Candlemas and we have just enough time to squeeze them in before Septuagesima, which has its own hymns. Here is the first one, which is for the first vespers of each Sunday; my translation below.

Verbum quod ante secula 

Sinu paterno nasceris, 

Recens homo sub tempore 

E Virginis prodis sinu. 

Fatale rumpis vinculum, 

Quo nos Adamus nexuit : 

Reddis quod ille perdidit: 

Spes illa tecum nascitur. 

Jam dura discis perpeti 

Quæ ferre par sontes fuit 

Orbis saluti, fletibus 

Præludis in cunis puer. 

Fis pauper, indigentia 

Et nos tua ditescimus: 

Luges; tuis et lacrymis 

Totum lavas mundi scelus. 

Pannis opertus vilibus 

Lates, recumbens in specu: 

Homo, superbis! et Deum 

Panni, specus non dedecent. 

A Patre missus, perditi 

Qui factus es mundi salus, 

Jesu, perire ne sinas 

Tot quos emis laboribus.

Qui natus es de Virgine,

 Jesu, tibi sit gloria 

Cum Patre, cumque Spiritu, 

In sempiterna secula. 

Medieval painting of the Nativity, St Agatha, Easby, Yorkshire. Note on the left the plaster with a biblical text which was layered over this painting after the Reformation, accidentally preserving it.