Note 182 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)
Reading edition
Text in C. Cahier and A. Martin, Mélanges d’Archéologie, i. (1847-9), 258; Clément, 113, from eleventh-century Evangeliarium, now in a Bollandist monastery in Brussels (Meyer, 41). It is a revision of the normal text. The author has been so industrious as even to put many of the rubrics in hexameters. The opening is
‘Ordo. Post Benedicamus puerorum splendida coetus ad regem pariter debent protendere gressu, praeclara voce necnon istic resonare.’
The ‘rex’ who presided and possibly acted Herod (cf. p. 56) was, I suppose, an Epiphany king or ‘rex fatuorum.’