Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-15

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One written about the time of IIenr,
vi. draws the bow at II venture ID,
stating hat Jesus was born in tn,
morning, and begins
Wolcum be thu, hevcne Kyng,
Wolcum, born in on Morwening,
Nolcmn, for hom we Xal syng,
Wolcum, gol.
Considerable sympathy is offer
shewn for the natural surprise of Jo
seph ut the state nf Mary, as the frs
stanza of another Carol illustrates
Mervele nogt, Josep, on Mary mylde
Forsake hyr not, they she be will
chylde.
|, Josep, wonder how this may be,
That Mary weX gret when Y and she
Ever have lived in chastite;
If she be with chylde, VI vs. not by ME
Mervelle not. Joseph
The precocity of the child, who con.
verses with his mother as soon as he
is born, is shown in numerous Carols
One goes:
This lovely lady sat and song, and t,
hyr chyld sayd,
My some, my broder, my fader der
why lycst thou thus in hayd?
My swete byrd,
Thus it ys betyde,
Thow thou be Kyng veray;
But nevertheless
wyll not SEES
To syng, by by, lullay.
The chyld then spak in his talkyng
and to hys moder sayd,
i bekydde am Kyng in cribbe thar ]
be layd, etc.
She answers:
Now, swct son, syn thou art Kyng
why art thou layd in stall?
Why ne thou ordende thi beddyng in
sum great kynges hall?
Me thynkyth it is rygt,
That kyng or knyght
Should ly in good array;
And than among
Ii We're no wrong
To syng, by by, lullay.
He replies:
Mary moder, | am thi chyld, thow ]
be layd iii stall,
Lordes and dukes shal Worship me
and so shall Kynges all.
Ie shall we'll Sc
That kynges tire
Shall come the xii day,
For this b,hest
teIu me tliI 5rest,
And sing, by by, luilay.
Another Carol begins:
Lullay, my chyld, and wepe no mo.
Slepe and be now styll:
The Kyng of blys thy fader US,
As it was hys wyll.
"A former interview-the Annun-
'ciation-5etween Mary and Gabriel
gave much scope to the composers
and is variously rendered, although
in all cases the archangel behaves
like a knightly courtier in chival,
rous age. One begins,
Gabrielle, that angel brygt,
Brygter than the some is lygt,
Fro hevyn to erth he took his Aygt.
LETARE. (Be joyful
In Nazareth that gret cete,
Befor a madyn he knelyd on kne,
And seyd, Mary, God is with the,
LETARE
Heyll, Mary, full of grace,
God is with thee and ever was;
He hath in the chosen place.
LETARE
The next begins:
Gabryell of hyge degree,
Cam down from the Trenyte,
TO Nazareth in Galilee.
With NOVA
Another ends:
MARYA vENTRE Concept, the holy
gost was ay hyr with;
OF hyr in Bedlem now born he is,
CoNSORS PATERNI LUMINIS;
ALME BEATA TRINITAS, that lay be-
twn an OK and il as,
BY his modyr madyn fre, GLORIA
TIBI Domino.
A few Carols are deeply dogmatical
and metaphysical, but with these we
will not trouble our readers. The
monastic doctrine of the sinfulness
of the conjugal union may be found
i'm most of them, and in one instance
is given with extreme grossness. and
Is a slander on every human mother
Mary excepted. Others warn us to
be moderate and decorous in our
mirth, to be merry with temperance
and sobriety-an admonition apprO-
pirate ut all times and seasons. But
AS the centuries rolled on, the high
significance of Noel, the DIES NATAL
Is of Christ, became secondary t,
profuse eating and drinking. Bee
and pudding We're more thought o
than the self-sacrificing life of tn,
Man of Sorrows. The tender plain
tiveness that chastened the Joy o
the old Carols was succeeded by
coarse and boisterous spirit of revelr,
and vulgar debauch, as though Jesu
were Bacchus. Hence,
Hark, how the roofs with laughte
sound!
Anon they'll think the world goe
round;
For they the cellars depth hav
| found,
And there they will make merry
One, however, says:
This feast is to relieve the poor,
And not To drunken Bacchus.
Another, printed just after the Res
toration, has similar spirit. 1t be
gins:
All you that in this house be here,
Remember Christ that for us dye
And spend away with modest cheer,
In loving sort this Christmas It'd,
And whereas plenty God has sent,
Give frankly to your friends in love
The bounteous mind is freely bent,
And never will Il niggard prove.
In conclusion we wish all our reaC
crs in the final words of the old Caro-
Wolcum be We that arm here,
Wolcum, allie, and max good cher,
Wolcum, ale, another yere.
IL.