"CY COMMANCE la nativité nostre sire Jhesucrist" ; transcript of a 15th cent. French mystery-play in octosyllabic couplets. Beg. "In principio creavit Deus celum et terram, etc . . . Benois sort il qui se tera et fera paix pour mieulx oyr." Petit de Julleville in Histoire du Theâtre en France: L...
LA DANSE MACABRE: the shorter and earlier version of the poem, as published in 1485 and reprinted by V. Dufour, La Dance Macabre des SS. Innocents de Paris, 1874, where it is attributed (p. 86) to Jean Charlier de Gerson, chancellor of Paris University (d. 1429). Beg. "Creature raisonnable Qui d...