ORGAN—TWELFTH CENTURY
It may, then, be taken as certain that, generally speaking, Mass was celebrated daily in most of the parish churches. It is equally certain that this was fairly attended by those whose duties permitted them to be present. The Prymer of 1538, in giving the duties of the week, thus speaks of Monday:—
“Monday men ought me for to call,
In which good werkes ought to begin;
Heryng masse, the first dede of all,
Intendyng to fle deadly syn.”
So, too, The Young Children’s Book, which is dated about A.D. 1500, takes for granted that those to whom the author addresses his lines will go to their morning Mass.
“Aryse be tyme oute of thi bedde,
And blysse thi brest and thi forhede,