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■Respondeat canto ?’: 
Infantem pannis inuolutum, 
secundum sermonem angelicum. 
Respondeat scol#: 
Adest hie paruulus cum Maria matre sua, 
de qua dudum uaticinandum Esaias dixerat propheta: 
Respondeat cant or: 
Ecce uirgo concipiet et pariet filium; 
et nunc euntes dicite quia natus est, 
alleluia, alleluia. 
Respondeat scola: 
<fol. 6 r > lam uere s<c>imus JLpistum natum in terra, 
de co canite omnes cum propheta dicentes: 
Puer natus est. 
Tn such a division of parts one may, perhaps, recognize a 
slight advance toward drama. The cantor’s addressing the 
chorus as “Pastures,” and his receiving their reply, seem to 
point the wlay directly to the use of these sentences in true 
drama. 
The dramatic advance is still more marked in the following: 
Tn n atiuitate i yomim ad mis sam sint parati diaconi induti 
DALMATICIS RETRO ALTARS DICENTES : 
Quern queritis in presepe, pastores, dicite? 
RESPONDEANT 11° CANTORES IN CHORO VerSUm: 
<fol. 6 V > Saluatorem XpAten Dominum, 
infantem pannis inuolutum, 
secundum sermonem angelicum. 
it cm diaconi versum: 
Adest hie paruulus cum Maria matre sua, 
de qua dudum uaticinando Ysaias dixerat propheta: 
Ecce uirgo concipiet et pariet filium; 
et nunc euntes dicite quia natus est. 
TUNC CANTOr DICAT EXCELS# UOCS.* 
Alleluia, alleluia. 
1 Oxford, Bibl. Bodl., MS. Douce 222, Troparium Novaliciense saec. 
xi, fol. 6.r Anz (p. 38), following Gautier (pp. 136, 218), erroneously 
assigns this Novalesa troper to St. Gall. 
