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There is some buffoonery introduced into the fourteenth of the Coventry plays, as gross as this, but which was adapted to the rude audiences of its time; and the language of the buffoons of the piece, Primus and Secundus Detractator, forms an exception to its general gravity and seriousness. The fifth noel, amongst other things, introduces the adoration and
offering of the Three Kings, in the following manner.
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" Ai lai Nativitati,
Chanton, je vo suplie,
Troi Roi d' autre coutai,
Moitre au estrologie,
De 1' anfan novea nai
Saivein lai profecie.
Ai lai Nativitai, Chanton, je vo suplie, De l'etoile gnidai To troi de compagnie, Patire sans menai, Gran seute, ni meignie.
A lai Nativitai, Chanton, je vo suplie, L'un pris soin d'epotai, De lai myere candie, L'autre d'or efeignai, E'ne bonne poignie.
Ai lai Nativitai, Chanton, je vo suplie, Le tier pu macherai, Qu' ein Koi d'Etiopie,
Prezanti po son plai #
De T ancan d' Airaibir." |
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