Received: by 10.180.96.42 with SMTP id dp10mr189506wib.2.1344073629032; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: n2ni35812363win.0!nntp.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!npeersf03.am4!fx28.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Briggs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.music.early Subject: Coventry Carol Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.80.2 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: fx28.am4 1344073628 62.253.80.2 (Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:47:08 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:47:08 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:47:01 +0100 X-Received-Bytes: 1206 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The first stanza of the Coventry Carol is two bars shorter that the remaining three stanzas, suggesting that four syllables (short-long, short-long) of text have dropped out. The music is easily restored, but the words are more problematic. I offer the following restoration: Lul-ly, lu-la, thou lit-tel tyne child, Bye, bye, lul-ly, lul-lay: [Lul-lay, lu-la,] thou lit-tel tyne child, Bye, bye, lul-ly, lul-lay. -- John Briggs