Charles Davidson — English Mystery Plays. 



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Orleans, 3 XII Century. 



HERODES, SIVE MAGORUM ADORATIO. 



Incipit ordo ad reprcesentanduni Her- 



odem. 



Parato Herode et cceteris personis,* tunc 



QUIDAM ANGELUS cum multitudine in 



excelsis appareat. 



1 From Du Cang-e —Pastorwm Offlcium— 

 amplified from Weinhold and Du Meril. 



2 From Weinhold and Du Meril. 



3 From Wright, p. 23. 



4 See discussion of manner of presenta- 

 tion. 



5 In many places illegible. 



Quo viso PASTORES perterriti, salutem 

 annunciet eis, de cceteris adhuc tacen- 

 tibus : 



Nolite timere vos, ecce enim euvange- 

 lizo vobis gaudium magnum, quod erit 

 omni populo, quia natus nobis hodie 

 Salvator Mundi, in civitate David, et 

 hoc vobis signum : invenietis infantem 

 pannis involutum et positum in prae- 

 sepio, in medio duum animalium. 



Et subito OMNis MULTiTUDO^ cuni An- 

 gela dicat: 



Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax 

 bominibus bonse voluntatis. Alleluia ! 

 Alleluia ! 

 Tunc demum surgentes cantent intra se : 



6 The original actors were boys, as per R. 



7 In O, cradle at the monastery gate ; in 



Transeamus, etc., et sic procedant R, behind the altar. 



usque ad prcesepe,'^ quod ad januas ^ The five stanzas are given by Du Meril, 



monasterii paratum erit: ^' 



Transeamus usque Bethleem, ut videa- 



mus hoc Verbum quod factum est, quod 



fecit Dominus et ostendit nobis. 



Tunc DU-ffiJ MULiERES^ custodientcs prce- 

 sepe interrogent pastores, dicentes : 



Quern quaeritis, pastores, dicite ? 



9 Presbyters personated women. At Nan- 

 tes the Cantor asks the question ; at Laon 

 the Cantor and Subcantor. 



pastores'*^ respondeant : 

 Salvatorem Christum dominum ; 

 Infantum pannis involutum, 

 Secundum sermonem angelicum. 



10 Priests at Laon, boys at Nantes, who 

 use the words in which the shepherds reply 

 to the Magi in F. The adoration is omitted 

 at Laon and Nantes. 



