Meaning of black sanctus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A profane or blasphemous parody of a hymn.
   archaic
2. Harsh words, especially profanities, or other dissonant noises; a cacophony.
   archaic, figuratively

Examples

“I knewe I would make him soone change his note, / I will make him sing the blacke sanctus, I holde him a grote.”

“The surly sinners sing / A horrible black santis, so to cheer / The work in hand. And evermore you hear / A shout of awful joy, as down goes some / Three-hundred-years-old treasure.”

“As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus / Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.”

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