Assertion: ballad's verse | /r/CapableOf | accompany sacred musical hymns
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text: However, it is easy to see how the popular and the sacred had likely influenced each other: people of all degrees of literacy heard and sometimes sang hymns from the Mass, and religious holiday entertainments included “ecclesiastical ballads” in English and Latin as early as the thirteenth century.8 Further, the substitution of secular verses to accompany sacred musical hymns, known as contrafactum, was already a common practice by the early middle ages.