Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-25

The shepherd upon nile he stode,
Rownd about hym his shepe they yode;
He put hys hand under hys hode,
He saw star as rede as biOde.
Can not sing, etc
The shepherd sayi non-right,
g | willie go see yon fairly sight,
Wher as the angelic syngeth on hight,
And the star that shYneth so brygnt.
Can not sing, etc.
"Now farewell Mall, and also viii
For my love 20 We all styH
Unto / cum agaYn you TIL
and ever more, viii ring well thy bell.
Can | not sing, ETC.
"Now must go Their cryst was borne,
Farewell ! cum a-geyn to-norn,
Dog kepe well my shep fro the corn,
And warn well warroke when blow NY horne "
Can not sing, etc.
When Wat to Bedlem cum was,
He swet-he had gon faster than pace
lie fownd Jhesu in a symplle place,
Between and an asse
Can not sing but, etc.
VII.
Jhesu l offer to Thee here my pype,
My skyrte, my tarboX, and my scrype
Home TO my fellowes now willie skype,
And loke unto my shepe."
Can | not sing but hoy
When the Jolly, Jolly shepherd made such joyf
No gleanings from sixteenth century song
books can be pleasanter than this; and the
volume of Provencal NouUe which we have
already alluded 10, is full of similar pieces.
1t is written in dialect, the "lcngo de las pas
touqus," as the Provencals say. and their
patois certainly lends itself with infinite
grace to the subject.
Micoulau, or Michael, Saboly was born in
1914. Jan Saboly of Monteri, his father,
and Felise Meliorat, his mother, were OF
gentle blood and the boys education in the
Jesuit College of Carpentras removed him
early from the peasantry of his native dis
trict; but he had found apparently both love
and piety, and their handmade poetry, in
nuts where the poor men lie, and, speaking
aud writing in their language, once that OF
kings and troubadours. he still survives as a
poet of the people. His verses even now
gladden. the peasants at the time of Caleades
for so this population, which uses the Oldest
of the Romance dialects, persists in calling
the season which in the pagan division of the
year fell into the Kalends of January. The
Proyencals are naturally religious. Gifted
with lively and sensitive imaginations they
write and read quantity OF religious poetry,
and their genius is apt to express itself il
this way, whether the subject be the suffer
ings of the Protestants during the persecu.
lions, or the great festivals of the Latin
Church. To them Christmas is what they
call it,
THE MOTHER OF NIGHTS
And the Nouve" of Saboly are still living
poems, not scraps Of antiquarian lore ex.
humed by the ritualist or the antiquarian.
The good old priest who composed them was
for twenty-five years prior of Sainte Made
laine Of Carpentras, and was then removed
to the collegiate church of ST. Peter in AVG
non the university bestowing on him the de
gree of Bachelor of Arts. In Avignon, al
maestro di capelLo, Saboly lived; he played
on the great organ of the church, and he
played on the hearts of the people by hi.
beautiful Christmas hymns. He has beer
fondly called the troubadour of Bethle
hem :" and when he died, he was buried il
the church where he had sung and there by
the swift Rhone he rests There has been (
new edition of his ''Nouve" brought on
within the last few years by Roumanille, tn,
poet. bookseller of Avignon; and it is in gen
eral use, for the Avignonese still speak tn
same dialect, the softest if not the purest, o
all the patois of the South and by them tn
.s Nouve are yet often said and sung
though perhaps in St, Peters choir the con
gregation may have learnt to prefer to tn
! quaint tunes that Saboly played on his organ
| Adams magnificent Christmas music TO
that splendid hymn, "Minuit, Chretiens
| c'est l'heure solennelle, - is now the most pop
ular piece of church music in all France.
Chief amongst the numerous Christina
| dishes in the olden time was
THE BoAR's HEAD.
Carried to the table on a dish of gold or sil
ver-for no meaner metal would sutfice-her
aided by a iubilant flourish of trumpets. Tn
stately mobiles, knights and ladies united i
singing the following carol:
Caput a ori deterO,
ReidenS Ld1CdeS Domino.
| The boar's head in hand bring |,
With garlands gay and rosemary.
/ pray you sing merrily,
Qui eStjS az conUiUt0.
The boar's head, I understand,
! Is tie chief service in the land
Look wherever it be found,
Serg5te cum ca'tico
| Be glad, both more and less,
! For this hath ordained our Steward
To cheer you all this Christmas
| The bears head and mustard
CGptd Gp1i defero,
ReddesiS LdudeS Domino.
With great gravity the boar's head wa
placed on the table, and, to use the poet
words:
Sweet rosemary and bays around it spread
| His foaming tusk with large pippin graced,
Or midst those laundering spears an orange placed
Sauce like himself, offensive to his Toes,
The roguish mustard, dangerous to the nose
Mustard appears to have been an indis
pensable condiment, for we find in wor
giving proper instructions for the royal tabI
a quaint rule: g First set forth mustard wit
Drawn in the dish, as it lieth, and lay o
your soyereign's trencher, and see that Their
be mustard"
During the English Commonwealth 1850
1861 it was threatened TO end Christmas fes
| tiYities by Act of Parliament, when the Ia
low chambers complained loudly that the
could not dispose of mustard on account {
the diminished consumption Of Drawn in til
country Although, as DR.. Robert Chamber
well puts it, " Parliament failed to put dow
| Christmas, the boar's head never regained il
| old supremacy at the table. Still its memor
was cherished in some
NooKs AND CORNERS
OF old England long after it had ceased to rul
the roast. The lessee of the tithes of Hor
| Church. Essex, had every Christmas to pre-
! vide boaf's head, which, after being dresse
and garnished with bay, was wrestled for
| a Geld adjoining the church. The custom {
serving up the ancient dish at Queens Co
lege, Oxford, to variation of the old caro-
sprung, according to the legend, from
valorous act on the part of student of th
college in question. While walking in Sho
over Forest. study his Aristotle, he was sue
| denly made aware of the presence of vii
boar by the animal rushing at him oper
mouthed. With great presence of MAD, an
the exclamation, GrGcusl est ? the collegia
thrust the philosophers ethics down his a.
sailant's throat, and, having choked til
savage with the sage, went on his way ri
joioing."
The peacock was the next dish OF import
auce, and to get it ready for the table was n
light task We learn that the skin was care
fully stripped off, with the plumage adhel
| ing: the bird then roasted when done an
! partially cooled, it was sewed up again in il
! feathers, its beak gilded, and SO sent to table
! Occasionally it is recorded that the Who'll