To Joe Offer: I'm only here intermittently, when I have time or when something really bugs me. :-)

But to respond to the thread, we should be clear that "Personent Hodie," although the tune is from the Piae Cantiones, is not the tune for "Wenceslas." The Oxford Book of Carols has "Personent Hodie" (#78), with arrangement by Gustav Holst and an English translation by John A. Parkinson; it does not begin with "men and boys." (And should not, since "Personent Hodie" opens by referring to children singing, not adults.)

So if the song meant is not "Tempus adest floridum," I don't know what it is.

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I clarified the language in her post so it's less likely to lead people astray. -Joe Offer-