The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
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The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)
Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism; Theater -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
Amen dicas, Asine,
Iam satur de gramine,
Amen, Amen, itera,
Aspernare vetera. 68
_Hez va, hez va! hez va, hez!_
_Bialx Sire Asnes, car allez:_
_Belle bouche, car chantez._ 71
B¹ has heading _Conductus asi<ni ubi> adducitur_; S, _Conductus ad
tabulam_.
5-8 B¹, ² _Hez, hez, sire Asnes, hez_; S. _Hez, Sir asne, hez_; Bo. _He,
he, he, Sire Ane. He._
18. B¹, ²; S, _Enulritus_.
21-4. B¹ _Hez, hez_ (and so in all verses but last); B² _Hez_ (and so in
all verses); S, _Hez, Sir asne, hez_ (and so in all verses).
vi. B¹, ² omit; Bo. places after viii.
59. Duc. _a palea_.
65. Duc. adds (_hic genuflectebatur_).
66. Bo. _Iam satis de carmine_.
69-71. B² _Hez_; Clément,
_Hez va! hez va! hez va! hez!_
_Bialx, sir asnes, car chantez,_
_Vous aurez du foin assez_
_Et de l’avoine a plantez._
I append the air of the Sens prose, as given by Dreves, _Analecta
Hymnica_, xx. 257.
[Music:
Orientis partibus Adventavit Asinus,
Pulcher et fortissimus, Sarcinis aptissimus.
Hez, Sir Asne, hez.]
M
THE BOY BISHOP
I. THE SARUM OFFICE.
[From C. Wordsworth, _Ceremonies and Processions of the
Cathedral Church of Salisbury_ (1901), 52, which follows the
practically identical texts of the printed _Processionals_
of 1508 (ed. Henderson, 1882, 17) and 1555 and the printed
_Breviary_ (ed. Procter-Wordsworth, I. ccxxix). Mr. Wordsworth
also found the office in two MS. breviaries (_Sarum Chapter
MS._ 152 and _Peterhouse, Cambridge, MS._ 270). In the MS.
(†1445) processional from Salisbury Cathedral (_Chapter MS._
148), on which his book is mainly based, there is a _lacuna_,
probably due to intentional mutilation, where the office
should come. I find no allusion to the Boy Bishop in the
printed _Sarum Missal_ (ed. Dickinson, 67), or in the _Sarum
Consuetudinary_, _Custumary_, or _Ordinal_ (Frere, _Use of
Sarum_).]
⸿ _In die sancti Johannis._
[De Episcopo Puerorum.]
_Ad uesperas, post memoriam de S. Stephano eat processio
Puerorum ad altare Innocencium, uel Sancte Trinitatis et Omnium
Sanctorum quod dicitur Salue, in capis sericis, cum cereis
illuminatis et ardentibus in manibus, cantando, Episcopo
Puerorum pontificalibus induto (executore officij, siue
Episcopo presente) incipiente hoc responsorium._
_Solus Episcopus Innocencium, si assit, Christum Puerum, uerum et
eternum, Pontificem designans, incipiat_:
_R._ Centum quadraginta quattuor millia qui empti sunt de terra: hij sunt
qui cum mulieribus non sunt coinquinati, uirgines enim permanserunt.
Ideo regnant cum Deo et Agno, et Agnus Dei cum illis.
_Tres pueri dicant hunc uersum._
_V._ Hij empti sunt ex omnibus, primicie Deo et Agno, et in ore illorum
non est inventum mendacium. Ideo.
_Omnes pueri dicant cantando simul hanc prosam_
Sedentem in superne.
_Chorus post vnumquemque uersum respondeat cantum prose super vltimam
literam E._
_V._ Sedentem in superne maiestatis arce-e.
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