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denms dignis co nuer sationibus ad eius mereanmr 1 2 pertin- 
<g>ere rcmsorciiun. Qui tecum. 
Pro Benddioapms mcatur : 
2 Verbum Patris hodie 
Processit de V irgine ; 
Virtutes angelice 3 
Cum canoro iubilo 
Reddunt laudes Domino. 
A ntiphona: 
Pacem nobis omnibus 
E’unciauit angelus 
<fol. 41 v > Refulsit pastoribws. 
Yeri solis claritas 
Dicant omnes 4 gratias. 5 
In this case the dialogue is attacked to the first psalm, Ps. 
xcii (Dominus regnavit). The interrogation alone 6 is sung 
before the first verse, and the complete dialogue after each of 
the first three verses. The normal first antiphon of Lauds 
(Quem vidistis) is then sung, and thenceforth the psalmody 
proceeds regularly. 7 
In spite of the dramatic character of the dialogue before us, 
and in spite of the festal appreciation bestowed upon it in the 
various forms reviewed above, this liturgical element neither 
created for itself an independent dramatic office nor joined it¬ 
self to the Officium Pastorum developed from Quem quceritis in 
prcesepe. Along with several other dramatic pieces from 
Christmas, however, Pastorcs, dicitc, quidnam vidistis served 
1 The manuscript seems to have: mereanws. 
2 In connection with this trope of the Benedicamus see the texts 
from Rouen manuscripts above, pp. 329, 333. 
3 MS. angelices. 
4 MS. gives this word twice. 
8 Followed immediately by the rubric: Et dicatur ad Yesperas . 
6 J[t is entirely likely that the reply has been erroneously omitted 
from the manuscript at this point. 
1 In connection with this type of Christmas Lauds see Dublin Re¬ 
view, Vol. cxxi (1897), p. 372. 
