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Introitus
PRAECO. / Come, good people, all and each, / Come and listen to our speech! / In your presence here I stand, / With a trumpet in my hand, / To announce the Easter Play, / Which we represent to-day! / First of all we shall rehearse, / In our action and our verse, / The Nativity of our Lord, / As written in the old record / Of the Protevangelion, / So that he who reads may run!