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versus : O semper benedicta 
que tale pignus hodie 
mundo edidisti alma 
versus : Aue, gratia plena, 
Dominic s tecum heatst, 
guam tu es uirgo enixa. 
versus : Cui in munera 
ac premaxima 
celestis beat splendens caterua. 
versus : In altis gloria 
Deo sit magna, 
pax homjinibns aioue in terra. 
Bone. 1 2 
The most extended dramatic use. of the interrogation Pas - 
tores, dicite, quidnam vidistis is to be found, however, in its 
career independent of the responsory. We have a variant 
form of it, for example, used as an introductory trope of the 
Introit of the first Christmas Mass: 
2 TROPnS IN MEDIA NOCTE : 
Pastores, dicite, qnidnam uidistis, et annunciate 
Xp isti natiuitate <m>. 
.III. 3 Infantem nidi <fol. 5 r > mus pannis inuolutum et 
choros angelorum laudantes Saluatorem. 
.III. 3 Dominus dixit, p salmus: Quare fremuernn^. Gloria 
seculorum, Amlen. 4 
Again we find this dialogue prescribed for delivery after the 
first Christmas Mass, just before the Te Deum at the end of 
Christmas Matins: 
1 Followed immediately by the rubric: In secundo Nocturno. 
2 Bodleian, Douce MS. 222, Troparium Novaliciense saec. xi, fol. 
4 V —5 r . 
s I cannot interpret this sign. Neither tres nor ter is satisfactory. 
Tertius modus is, as Dom Beyssac informs me, impossible. 
4 Followed immediately by: Responsum: Tecum principium,—the 
Graduale of the Mass. 
