Note 756 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)

Besides T. Wright’s Songs and Carols, Percy Soc., 1847, see W. Sandy’s Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, London, 1833, with a long introduction, and the same editor’s Festive Songs, Percy Soc., 1848. Sandys (Carols) gives the cries or refrains of many Christmas songs:—

Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,—

No—el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el,—

Noel, Noel—

à moult granz cris, the familiar refrain in France.