ABSTRACT
Good men and woymen, þys day, as 3e knowen well, ys cleped 4 Sonenday yn þe Aduent; þat ys, þe Sonenday of Cristys comyng. Wherfor þys day holy chyrch makyth mencyon of two comyngys of Crist, Godys sonne, ynto þys world, forto by mankind out 8 of þe deueles bondage, and to bryng hym and weldoers to þe blys þat euer schall last. And his oþer comyng, þat schall be at þe day of dome, forto deme all wikytdoers ynto þe pyt of hell for euermor. But þe for[m]e comyng of Cryst ynto þys world 12 broght ioy and blysse wyth hym; þerfor holy chyrch vsyth summe songes of melody, as Alleluja, and oþer. And for þe comyng of Cryst to þe dome schall be so jrus and so cruell, þat no tong may tell, þerfor holy chirch layth downe sum songes 16 of melody as: ‘Te Deum laudamus,’ ‘Gloria in excelsis,’ and ‘Weddyng.’ For aftyr þat day schall weddyng neuer be. Þus holy chirche layþe downe songys of melody befor, yn tokenyng of vengans þat woll come aftyr. 20
