{"id":373,"date":"2015-07-14T22:53:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit1x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=373"},"modified":"2015-07-14T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:08:22","slug":"the-wakefield-second-shepherds-play","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-britlit1-curry\/chapter\/the-wakefield-second-shepherds-play\/","title":{"raw":"The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play","rendered":"The Wakefield Second Shepherds&#8217; Play"},"content":{"raw":"<h3>CHARACTERS<\/h3>\r\n<ul class=\"charlist\">\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">1st Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">2nd Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">3rd Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mac<\/span>, <i>the Sheep-stealer<\/i><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mac's Wife, Gill<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mary<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">The Child Christ<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">An Angel<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>THE WAKEFIELD SECOND NATIVITY PLAY<\/h3>\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Lord! what, these weathers are cold, and I am ill happed;\r\nI am near hand-dold[footnote]numb of hand[\/footnote],<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span>so long have I napped;\r\nMy legs bend and fold, my fingers are chapped,\r\nIt is not as I would, for I am all lapped\r\nIn sorrow.\r\nIn storms and tempest,\r\nNow in the east, now in the west,\r\nWoe is him has never rest,\r\nMid day nor morrow.\r\nBut we silly shepherds, that walk upon the moor,\r\nIn faith, we are near hands out of the door;\r\nNo wonder, as it stands, if we be poor,\r\nFor the tilth of our lands lies fallow as the floor,\r\nWe are so lamed,\r\nSo taxed and shamed,\r\nWe are made hand-tamed,\r\nWith these gentlery-men.\r\nThus they rieve us of rest, Our Lady them wary,\r\nThese men that are lord-fest[footnote]fast tied (to a lord, as a public-house to a brewer)[\/footnote],\u00a0they cause the plough tarry.\r\nThat men say is for the best, we find it contrary,\r\nThus are husbands<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\">[footnote]husbandmen[\/footnote]<\/span>\u00a0opprest, in point to miscarry,\r\nIn life.\r\nThus hold they us under,\r\nThus they bring us in blunder,\r\nIt were great wonder,\r\nAnd ever should we thrive.\r\nFor may he get a paint sleeve[footnote]a painted sleeve[\/footnote],\u00a0or a brooch now on days,\r\nWoe is he that shall grieve, or once again says,\r\nDare no man him reprieve, what mast'ry he has,\r\nAnd yet may none believe one word that he says--\r\nNo letter.\r\nHe can make purveyance,\r\nWith boast and bragance,[footnote]bragging[\/footnote]\r\nAnd all through maintenance,\r\nOf men that are greater.\r\nThere shall come a swain, as proud as a po,[footnote]peacock[\/footnote]\r\nHe must borrow my wain, my plough also,\r\nThen I am full fain to grant or he go.\r\nThus live we in pain, anger, and woe,\r\nBy night and day;\r\nHe must have if he long\u00e9d\r\nIf I should forgang[footnote]forego[\/footnote]\u00a0it,\r\nI were better be hang\u00e9d\r\nThan once say him nay.\r\nIt does me good, as I walk thus by mine own,\r\nOf this world for to talk in manner of moan\r\nTo my sheep will I stalk and hearken anon\r\nThere abide on a balk, or sit on a stone\r\nFull soon.\r\nFor I trow, pardie!\r\nTrue men if they be,\r\nWe get more company\r\nOr it be noon.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> \"Beniste\"[footnote]Benedicite[\/footnote]\u00a0and \"Dominus!\" what may this bemean?\r\nWhy fares this world thus, oft have we not seen.\r\nLord, these weathers are spitous,[footnote]spiteful[\/footnote] and the weather full keen;\r\nAnd the frost so hideous they water mine een,\r\nNo lie.\r\nNow in dry, now in wet,\r\nNow in snow, now in sleet,\r\nWhen my shoon freeze to my feet\r\nIt is not all easy.\r\nBut as far as I ken, or yet as I go,\r\nWe silly wed-men dree mickle woe;[footnote]we silly wedded men endure much woe[\/footnote]\r\nWe have sorrow then and then, it falls often so,\r\nSilly capyl, our hen, both to and fro\r\nShe cackles,\r\nBut begin she to croak,\r\nTo groan or to cluck,\r\nWoe is him, say of our cock,\r\nFor he is in the shackles.\r\nThese men that are wed, have not all their will,\r\nWhen they are full hard sted,[footnote]placed, bestead[\/footnote]\u00a0they sigh full still;\r\nGod wait they are led full hard and full ill,\r\nIn bower nor in bed they say not there till\r\nThis tide.\r\nMy part have I found,\r\nMy lesson is learn'd,\r\nWoe is him that is bound,\r\nFor he must abide.\r\nBut now late in our lives, a marvel to me,\r\nThat I think my heart rives,[footnote]is riven asunder[\/footnote]\u00a0such wonders to see,\r\nWhat that destiny drives it should so be,\r\nSome men will have two wives, and some men three,\r\nIn store.\r\nSome are woe that have any;\r\nBut so far ken I,\r\nWoe is he who has many,\r\nFor he feels it sore.\r\nBut young men of wooing, for God that you bought,\r\nBe well ware of wedding, and think in your thought\r\n\"Had I wist\" is a thing it serves ye of nought;\r\nMickle still mourning has wedding home brought,\r\nAnd griefs,\r\nWith many a sharp shower,\r\nFor thou may catch in an hour\r\nThat shall serve thee full sour\r\nAs long as thou lives.\r\nFor as read I epistle, I have one to my fear\r\nAs sharp as a thistle, as rough as a brere.[footnote]briar[\/footnote]\r\nShe is browed like a bristle with a sour lenten cheer;\r\nHad she once wet her whistle she could sing full clear\r\nHer pater-noster.\r\nShe is as great as a whale,\r\nShe has a gallon of gall;\r\nBy him that died for us all!\r\nI would I had run till I lost her.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> God look over the row, full deafly ye stand.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, the devil in thy maw!--so tariand,[footnote]tarrying[\/footnote]\r\nSaw thou aught now of Daw?\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, on a lea land\r\nHeard I him blow, he comes here at hand,\r\nNot far;\r\nStand still.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Why?\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> For he comes here, hope I.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> He will make us both a lie,\r\nBut if we beware.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Christ's cross me speed, and Saint Nicholas!\r\nThereof had I need, it is worse than it was.\r\nWhoso could take heed, and let the world pass,\r\nIt is ever in dread and brittle as glass,\r\nAnd slithers,[footnote]slithers, slides away[\/footnote]\r\nThis world fared never so,\r\nWith marvels mo and mo,[footnote]more and more[\/footnote]\r\nNow in weal, now in woe,\r\nAnd all things withers.\r\nWas never since Noah's flood such floods seen,\r\nWinds and rains so rude, and storms so keen,\r\nSome stammered, some stood in doubt, as I ween,\r\nNow God turn all to good, I say as I mean,\r\nFor ponder.\r\nThese floods so they drown\r\nBoth in fields and in town,\r\nThey bear all down,\r\nAnd that is a wonder.\r\nWe that walk in the nights, our cattle to keep,\r\nWe see sudden sights, when other men sleep:\r\nYet methinks my heart lights, I see shrews peep,\r\nYe are two, all wights,[footnote]You are two who wit, or know, all\u00a0I will give my sheep[\/footnote]\r\nA turn.\r\nBut full ill have I meant,\r\nAs I walk on this bent,[footnote]field[\/footnote]\r\nI may lightly repent,\r\nMy toes if I spurn.\r\nAh, sir, God you save, and master mine!\r\nA drink fain would I have and somewhat to dine.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Christ's curs, my knave, thou art a lazy hyne.[footnote]hind[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> What, the boy list rave. Abide until syne[footnote]till such time as we have made it[\/footnote]\r\nWe have made it.\r\nI'll thrift on thy pate!\r\nThough the shrew came late\r\nYet is he in state\r\nTo dine if he had it.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Such servants as I, that sweats and swinks,\r\nEats our bread full dry, and that me forthinks;\r\nWe are oft wet and weary when master men winks,\r\nYet comes full lately both dinners and drinks,\r\nBut neatly.\r\nBoth our dame and our sire,\r\nWhen we have run in the mire,\r\nThey can nip at our hire,[footnote]stint our wages[\/footnote]\r\nAnd pay us full lately.\r\nBut hear my truth, master, for the fare that ye make\r\nI shall do thereafter work, as I take;\r\nI shall do a little, sir, and strive and still lack,\r\nFor yet lay my supper never on my stomack\r\nIn fields.\r\nWhereto should I threap?[footnote]argue[\/footnote]\r\nWith my staff can I leap,\r\nAnd men say \"light cheap\r\nLetherly for yields.\"[footnote]a light bargain yields badly[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Thou wert an ill lad, to ride on wooing\r\nWith a man that had but little of spending.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Peace, boy!--I bade: no more jangling,\r\nOr I shall make thee afraid, by the heaven's king!\r\nWith thy gawds;\r\nWhere are our sheep, boy, we scorn?\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Sir, this same day at morn,\r\nI them left in the corn,\r\nWhen they rang lauds;\r\nThey have pasture good, they cannot go wrong.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> That is right by the rood, these nights are long,\r\nYet I would, or we yode,[footnote]went[\/footnote]\u00a0one gave us a song.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> So I thought as I stood, to mirth us among.[footnote]to make mirth among us[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I grant.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Let me sing the tenory.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> And I the treble so high.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Then the mean falls to me;\r\nLet see how ye chaunt.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac enters, with a cloak thrown over his smock.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Now, Lord, for thy names seven, that made both moon and starns[footnote]stars[\/footnote]\r\nWell more than I can even: thy will, Lord, of my thorns;\r\nI am all uneven, that moves oft my horns,[footnote]\"harnes\" in original, which may mean \"harness\"[\/footnote]\r\nNow would God I were in heaven, for there weep no bairns\r\nSo still.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Who is that pipes so poor?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Would God ye knew how I fare!\r\nLo, a man that walks on the moor,\r\nAnd has not all his will.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, where hast thou gone? Tell us tidings.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Is he come? Then each one take heed to his things.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Takes his cloak from him.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> What, I am a yeoman, I tell you, of the king;\r\nThe self and the same, sent from a great lording,\r\nAnd sich.[footnote]such (of such)[\/footnote]\r\nFy on you, get thee hence,\r\nOut of my presence,\r\nI must have reverence,\r\nWhy, who be ich?[footnote]I[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Why make ye it so quaint? Mac, ye do wrong.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> But, Mac, list, ye saint? I trow that ye sang.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I trow the shrew can paint, the devil might him hang!\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> I shall make complaint, and make you all to thwang.[footnote]be thwacked, or flogged[\/footnote]\r\nAt a word,\r\nAnd tell even how ye doth.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> But, Mac, is that sooth?\r\nNow take out that southern tooth,\r\nAnd set in a tord.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, the devil in your ee,[footnote]eye[\/footnote]\u00a0a stroke would I lend you.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, know ye not me? By God, I could tell you.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> God look you all three, methought I had seen you.\r\nYe are a fair company.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Can ye now moan you?\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Shrew, jape![footnote]jest[\/footnote]\r\nThus late as thou goes,\r\nWhat will men suppose?\r\nAnd thou hast an ill noise[footnote]rumour (ill repute)[\/footnote]\r\nOf stealing of sheep.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> And I am true as steel all men wait,\r\nBut a sickness I feel, that holds me full haytt,[footnote]hot[\/footnote]\r\nMy belly fares not well, it is out of its state.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Seldom lies the devil dead by the gate.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Therefore\r\nFull sore am I and ill,\r\nIf I stand stock still;\r\nI eat not a nedyll[footnote]needle--not a little bit[\/footnote]\r\nThis month and more.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> How fares thy wife? By my hood, how fares she?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Lies weltering! by the rood! by the fire, lo!\r\nAnd a house full of brood,[footnote]brood, children[\/footnote]\u00a0she drinks well too,\r\nIll speed other good that she will do;\r\nBut so\r\nEats as fast as she can,\r\nAnd each year that comes to man,\r\nShe brings forth a lakan,plaything\r\nAnd some years two.\r\nBut were I not more gracious, and richer by far,\r\nI were eaten out of house, and of harbour,\r\nYet is she a foul dowse, if ye come near.\r\nThere is none that trows, nor knows, a war[footnote]worse[\/footnote]\r\nThan ken I.\r\nNow will ye see what I proffer,\r\nTo give all in my coffer\r\nTo-morrow next to offer,\r\nHer head mass-penn\u00fd.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I wot so forwaked[footnote]early waked, or perhaps, wearied by watching[\/footnote]\u00a0is none in this shire:\r\nI would sleep if I taked less to my hire.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I am cold and naked, and would have a fire.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> I am weary for-raked,[footnote]over-walked[\/footnote]\u00a0and run in the mire.\r\nWake thou!\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Nay, I will lie down-by,\r\nFor I must sleep truly.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> As good a man's son was I\r\nAs any of you.\r\nBut, Mac, come hither, between us shalt thou lie.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I stay you bedene[footnote]at once[\/footnote]: of that ye would say,--\r\nNo dread.\r\nFrom my head to my toe\r\n<i>Mantis tuas commendo,\r\nPontio Pilato.<\/i>[footnote]Into thy hands I commend (them), Pontius Pilate[\/footnote]\r\nChrist's cross me speed,\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He rises, the shepherds sleeping, and says:<\/i><\/p>\r\nNow were time for a man, that lacks what he wold,\r\nTo stalk privately then into a fold,\r\nAnd namely to work then, and be not too bold,\r\nHe might abide the bargain, if it were told\r\nAt the ending.\r\nNow were time for to revel;\r\nBut he needs good counsel\r\nThat fain would fare well,\r\nAnd has but little spending.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac works a spell on them.<\/i><\/p>\r\nBut about you a circle, as round as a moon,\r\nTill I have done that I will, till that it be noon,\r\nThat ye lie stone-still, till that I have done,\r\nAnd I shall say there till of good words a foyn[footnote]few[\/footnote]\r\nOn height;\r\nOver your heads my hand I lift,\r\nOut go your eyes, fore to do your sight,\r\nBut yet I must make better shift,\r\nAnd it be right.\r\nWhat, Lord? they sleep hard! that may ye all hear;\r\nWas I never a shepherd, but now will I leer[footnote]learn[\/footnote]\r\nIf the flock be scared, yet shall I nap near,\r\nWho draws hitherward, now mends our cheer,\r\nFrom sorrow:\r\nA fat sheep I dare say,\r\nA good fleece dare I lay,\r\nEft white when I may,\r\nBut this will I borrow.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He steals a sheep and goes home.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<i>Mac<\/i> (<i>at his own door<\/i>). How, Gill, art thou in? Get us some light.\r\n\r\n<i>His Wife.<\/i> Who makes such din this time of night?\r\nI am set for to spin: I hope not I might\r\nRise a penny to win: I shrew them on height.\r\nSo fares\r\nA housewife that has been\r\nTo be raised thus between:\r\nThere may no note be seen\r\nFor such small chares.[footnote]chare,--job, as in charwoman[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Good wife, open the hek.[footnote]wicket[\/footnote]\u00a0See'st thou not what I bring?\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> I may let thee draw the sneck. Ah! come in, my sweeting.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Yea, thou dost not reck of my long standing.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> By thy naked neck, thou art like for to hang.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Go away:\r\nI am worthy of my meat,\r\nFor in a strait can I get\r\nMore than they that swinck[footnote]toil[\/footnote] and sweat\r\nAll the long day,\r\nThus it fell to my lot, Gill, I had such grace.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> It were a foul blot to be hanged for the case.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> I have scaped, Jelott, oft as hard as glass.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> \"But so long goes the pot to the water,\" men says,\r\n\"At last comes it home broken.\"\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Well know I the token,\r\nBut let it never be spoken;\r\nBut come and help fast.\r\nI would he were flayn;[footnote]flayed[\/footnote] I list we'll eat:\r\nThis twelvemonth was I not so fain of one sheep-meat.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Come they if he be slain, and hear the sheep bleat?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I be ta'en: that were a cold sweat.\r\nGo bar\r\nThe gate door.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Yes, Mac,\r\nFor and they come at thy back.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I pay for all the pack:\r\nThe devil of them war![footnote]The devil of them give warning[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> A good bowrde[footnote]jest[\/footnote]\u00a0have I spied, since thou can none:\r\nHere shall we him hide, till they be gone;\r\nIn my cradle abide. Let me alone,\r\nAnd I shall lie beside in childbed and groan.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Thou red?[footnote]advisest, sayest so?[\/footnote]\r\nAnd I shall say thou wast light\r\nOf a knave child this night.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Now well is my day bright,\r\nThat ever I was bred.\r\nThis is a good guise and a far cast;\r\nYet a woman's advice helps at the last.\r\nI care never who spies: again go thou fast.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> But I come or they rise; else blows a cold blast--\r\nI will go sleep. <span class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac goes back to the field.<\/i><\/span>\r\nYet sleep all this menye,[footnote]company[\/footnote]\r\nAnd I shall go stalk privily,\r\nAs it had never been I\r\nThat carried their sheep.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> <i>Resurrex \u00e0 mortrius<\/i>: have hold my hand.\r\n<i>Judas carnas dominus<\/i>, I may not well stand:\r\nMy foot sleeps, by Jesus, and I water fastand!\r\nI thought that we laid us full near England.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ah ye!\r\nLord, how I have slept weel!\r\nAs fresh as an eel,\r\nAs light I me feel\r\nAs leaf on a tree.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Benste![footnote]Benedicite[\/footnote] be herein! So my head quakes\r\nMy heart is out of skin, what so it makes.\r\nWho makes all this din? So my brow aches,\r\nTo the door will I win. Hark fellows, wakes!\r\nWe were four:\r\nSee ye anything of Mac now?\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> We were up ere thou.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Man, I give God a vow,\r\nYet heed he nowhere.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Methought he was wrapped in a wolf's-skin.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> So are many happed, now namely within.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> When we had long napped; methought with a gin\r\nA fat sheep he trapped, but he made no din.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Be still:\r\nThy dream makes thee wood:[footnote]mad[\/footnote]\r\nIt is but phantom, by the rood.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Now God turn all to good,\r\nIf it be his will.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Rise, Mac, for shame! thou ly'st right long.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Now Christ, his holy name be us amang,\r\nWhat is this? for Saint James!--I may not well gang.\r\nI trust I be the same. Ah! my neck has lain wrang\r\nEnough\r\nMickle thank, since yester-even\r\nNow, by Saint Stephen!\r\nI was flayed with a sweven,--[footnote]dream[\/footnote]\r\nMy heart out of slough.[footnote]sloth(?)[\/footnote]\r\nI thought Gill began to croak, and travail full sad,\r\nWell nigh at the first cock,--of a young lad,\r\nFor to mend our flock: then be I never glad.\r\nTo have two on my rock,--more than ever I had.\r\nAh, my head!\r\nA house full of young tharmes,[footnote]bellies[\/footnote]\r\nThe devil knock out their harnes![footnote]brains[\/footnote]\r\nWoe is he has many bairns,\r\nAnd thereto little bread.\r\nI must go home, by your leave, to Gill as I thought.\r\nI pray you look my sleeve, that I steal nought:\r\nI am loth you to grieve, or from you take aught.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Go forth, ill might thou chefe,[footnote]prosper[\/footnote]\u00a0now would I we sought,\r\nThis morn,\r\nThat we had all our store.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> But I will go before,\r\nLet us meet.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Whor?[footnote]where[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> At the crooked thorn.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac (at his own door again).<\/i> Undo this door! who is here? How long shall I stand?\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Who makes such a stir?--Now walk in the wenyand.[footnote]waning moon[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Ah, Gill, what cheer?--It is I, Mac, your husband.\r\n\r\n<i>His Wife.<\/i> Then may we be here,--the devil in a band,\r\nSir Gile.\r\nLo, he commys[footnote]comes[\/footnote]\u00a0with a lot,\r\nAs he were holden in the throat.\r\nI may not sit, work or not\r\nA hand long while.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Will ye hear what fare she makes--to get her a glose,[footnote]lie[\/footnote]\r\nAnd do naught but lakes[footnote]plays[\/footnote]--and close her toes.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Why, who wanders, who wakes,--who comes, who goes?\r\nWho brews, who bakes? Who makes for me this hose?\r\nAnd then\r\nIt is ruth to behold,\r\nNow in hot, now in cold,\r\nFull woful is the household\r\nThat wants a woman.\r\nBut what end hast thou made with the herds, Mac?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> The last word that they said,--when I turned my back,\r\nThey would look that they had--their sheep all the pack.\r\nI hope they will not be well paid,--when they their sheep lack.\r\nPerdie!\r\nBut howso the game goes,\r\nTo me they will suppose,\r\nAnd make a foul noise,\r\nAnd cry out upon me.\r\nBut thou must do as thou hight,\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> I accord me thertylle.[footnote]thereto[\/footnote]\r\nI shall swaddle him right in my cradle.\r\nIf it were a greater slight, yet could I help till.\r\nI will lie down straight. Come hap me.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> I will.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Behind,\r\nCome Coll and his marrow,\r\nThey will nip us full narrow.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> But I may cry out \"Harro!\"[footnote]Help! or Halloo![\/footnote]\r\nThe sheep if they find.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Hearken aye when they call: they will come anon.\r\nCome and make ready all, and sing by thine own,\r\nSing \"Lullay!\" thou shall, for I must groan,\r\nAnd cry out by the wall on Mary and John,\r\nFor sore.\r\nSing \"Lullay\" full fast\r\nWhen thou hears at the last;\r\nAnd but I play a false cast\r\nTrust me no more.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Re-enter the Three Shepherds.<\/i>]<\/p>\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Ah, Coll! good morn:--why sleepest thou not?\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Alas, that ever was I born!--we have a foul blot.\r\nA fat wether have we lorne.[footnote]lost[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Marry, Godys forbot![footnote]God forbid[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Who should do us that scorn? That were a foul spot.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Some shrew.\r\nI have sought with my dogs,\r\nAll Horbery shrogs,[footnote]Horbery Shrubberies, near Wakefield[\/footnote]\r\nAnd of fifteen hogs\r\nFound I but one ewe.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Now trust me if you will;--by Saint Thomas of Kent!\r\nEither Mac or Gill--was at that assent.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Peace, man, be still;--I saw when he went.\r\nThou slander'st him ill; thou ought to repent.\r\nGood speed.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Now as ever might I thee,\r\nIf I should even here dee,[footnote]die[\/footnote]\r\nI would say it were he,\r\nThat did that same deed.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Go we thither I rede,[footnote]advise[\/footnote]--and run on our feet.\r\nMay I never eat bread,--the truth till I wit.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Nor drink, in my heed,--with him till I meet.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I will rest in no stead, till that I him greet,\r\nMy brother\r\nOne I will hight:[footnote]call[\/footnote]\r\nTill I see him in sight\r\nShall I never sleep one night\r\nThere I do another.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Will ye hear how they hack,[footnote]\"take on,\" make game[\/footnote]--Our Sire! list, how they croon!\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hard I never none crack,--so clear out of tune.\r\nCall on him.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac! undo your door soon.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Who is it that spoke,--as it were noon?\r\nOn loft,\r\nWho is that I say?\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Good fellows! were it day?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> As far as ye may,--\r\nGood, speak ye soft!\r\nOver a sick woman's head,--that is ill mate ease,\r\nI had liefer be dead,--or she had any disease.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Go to another stead; I may not well queasse[footnote]breathe[\/footnote]\r\nEach foot that ye tread--goes near make me sneeze[footnote]nose (?) The \"so he\" is meant for a she[\/footnote]\r\nSo he!\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Tell us, Mac, if ye may,\r\nHow fare ye, I say?\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> But are ye in this town to-day?\r\nNow how fare ye?\r\nYe have run in the mire, and are wet yit:\r\nI shall make you a fire, if ye will sit.\r\nA horse would I hire; think ye on it.\r\nWell quit is my hire, my dream--this is it.\r\nA season.\r\nI have bairns if ye knew,\r\nWell more than enew,[footnote]enow, enough[\/footnote]\r\nBut we must drink as we brew,\r\nAnd that is but reason.\r\nI would ye dined e'er ye yode:[footnote]went[\/footnote]\u00a0methink that ye sweat.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Nay, neither mends our mode, drink nor meat.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Why, sir, ails you aught, but good?\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yes, our sheep that we gat,\r\nAre stolen as they yode.[footnote]went, were grazing [\/footnote]Our loss is great.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Sirs, drink\u00fds!\r\nHad I been there,\r\nSome should have bought it full dear.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Marry, some men trows that ye were,\r\nAnd that us forethink\u00fds.[footnote]bothers us, makes us suspect[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, some men trows that it should be ye.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Either ye or your spouse; so say we.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Now if ye have suspouse[footnote]suspicion[\/footnote]\u00a0to Gill or to me,\r\nCome and rip our house, and then may ye see\r\nWho had her.\r\nIf I any sheep got,\r\nEither cow or stot,\r\nAnd Gill, my wife rose not\r\nHere since she laid her.\r\nAs I am both true and leal, to God here I pray,\r\nThat this be the first meal, I shall eat this day.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, as I have weal, arise thee, I say!\r\n\"He learned timely to steal, that could not say nay.\"\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> I swelt.[footnote]swelter[\/footnote]\r\nOut thieves from my once!\r\nYe come to rob us for the nonce.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Hear ye not how she groans?\r\nYour heart should melt.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Out thieves, from my bairn! Nigh him not thore.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Knew ye how she had farne,[footnote]fared[\/footnote]\u00a0your hearts would be sore.\r\nYe do wrong, I you warn, that thus commys before\r\nTo a woman that has farn;[footnote]been in labour[\/footnote]\u00a0but I say no more.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> Ah, my middle!\r\nI pray to God so mild,\r\nIf ever I you beguiled,\r\nThat I eat this child,\r\nThat lies in this cradle.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Peace, woman, for God's pain, and cry not so:\r\nThou spill'st thy brain, and mak'st me full woe.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I know our sheep be slain, what find ye too?\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> All work we in vain: as well may we go.\r\nBut hatters.confound it\r\nI can find no flesh,\r\nHard nor nesh,[footnote]soft[\/footnote]\r\nSalt nor fresh,\r\nBut two tome[footnote]empty[\/footnote]\u00a0platters:\r\nNo cattle but this, tame nor wild,\r\nNone, as have I bliss; as loud as he smiled.\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> No, so God me bliss, and give me joy of my child.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> We have mark\u00ebd amiss: I hold us beguiled.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Sir, done!\r\nSir, our lady him save,\r\nIs your child a knave?[footnote]a boy[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Any lord might him have\r\nThis child to his son.\r\nWhen he wakens he skips, that joy is to see.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> In good time, be his steps, and happy they be!\r\nBut who was his gossips, tell now to me!\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> So fair fall their lips!\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd (aside).<\/i> Hark now, a lee![footnote]a lie[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> So God them thank,\r\nParkin, and Gibbon Waller, I say,\r\nAnd gentle John Horne, in good fay,[footnote]faith[\/footnote]\r\nHe made all the garray,[footnote]hubbub[\/footnote]\r\nWith the great shank.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, friends will we be, for we are all one.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Why! now I hold for me, for help get I none.\r\nFarewell all three: all glad were ye gone.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Fair words may there be, but love there is none.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Gave ye the child anything?\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I trust not one farthing.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Fast again will I fling,\r\nAbide ye me there. <span class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He returns to Mac's cot.<\/i><\/span>\r\nMac, take it to no grief, if I come to thy barn.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Nay, thou dost me great reprieve, and foul hast thou farne.[footnote]done[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> The child will it not grieve, that little day starn.[footnote]day-star[\/footnote]\r\nMac, with your leave, let me give your bairn,\r\nBut sixpence.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Nay, go 'way: he sleepys.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Methink he peepys.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> When he wakens he weepys.\r\nI pray you go hence.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Give me leave him to kiss, and lift up the clout.\r\nWhat the devil is this? He has a long snout.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> He is marked amiss. We wait ill about.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ill spun weft, I wis, aye cometh foul out;\r\nAye so;\r\nHe is like to our sheep.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> How, Gib, may I peep?\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> I trow, kind will creep,\r\nWhere it may not go.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> This was a quaint gaud,[footnote]gem, something prankt out, or shown off, like a false gem[\/footnote]\u00a0and a far cast\r\nIt was a high fraud.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, sirs, was't.\r\nLet burn this bawd and bind her fast.\r\nA false skawd[footnote]scold[\/footnote] hangs at the last;\r\nSo shall thou.\r\nWill ye see how they swaddle\r\nHis four feet in the middle?\r\nSaw I never in a cradle\r\nA horn\u00ebd lad e'er now.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> Peace bid I: what! let be your fare;\r\nI am he that him gat, and yond woman him bare.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> What devil shall he halt?[footnote]hight, be called[\/footnote]\u00a0Mac, lo, God makes air.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Let be all that. Now God give him care!\r\nI sagh.[footnote]say[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> A pretty child is he,\r\nAs sits upon a woman's knee;\r\nA dylly-downe, perdie!\r\nTo make a man laugh.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I know him by the ear mark:--that is a good token.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> I tell you, sirs, hark:--his nose was broken.\r\nSince then, told me a clerk,--that he was forespoken.[footnote]bewitched[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> This is a false work.--I would fain be wroken:[footnote]be avenged, wreak vengeance[\/footnote]\r\nGet a weapon!\r\n\r\n<i>Wife.<\/i> He was taken by an elf;<i><\/i>[footnote]<i>i.e.<\/i> for a changeling[\/footnote]\r\nI saw it myself.\r\nWhen the clock struck twelve,\r\nWas he mis-shapen.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ye two are right deft,--same in a stead.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Since they maintain their theft,--let's do them to dead.\r\n\r\n<i>Mac.<\/i> If I trespass eft, gird off my head.\r\nWith you will I be left.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Sirs, do my red\r\nFor this trespass,\r\nWe will neither ban nor flyte[footnote]curse nor flout[\/footnote]\r\nFight, nor chyte,[footnote]chide[\/footnote]\r\nBut seize him tight,\r\nAnd cast him in canvas.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>They toss Mac for his sins.<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd<\/i> (<i>as the three return to the fold<\/i>). Lord, how I am sore, in point for to tryst:\r\nIn faith I may no more, therefore will I rest.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> As a sheep of seven score, he weighed in my fist.\r\nFor to sleep anywhere, methink that I list.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Now I pray you,\r\nLie down on this green.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> On these thefts yet I mean.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Whereto should ye tene?[footnote]vex about it[\/footnote]\r\nDo as I say you.\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Enter an Angel above, who sings \"Gloria in Excelsis,\" then says:<\/i><\/p>\r\nRise, hired-men, heynd,[footnote]gracious[\/footnote]\u00a0for now is he born\r\nThat shall take from the fiend, that Adam had lorn:[footnote]lost[\/footnote]\r\nThat warlock to sheynd,[footnote]destroy[\/footnote]\u00a0this night is he born.\r\nGod is made your friend: now at this morn,\r\nHe behests;\r\nTo Bedlem go see,\r\nThere lies that free[footnote]free, or divine, One[\/footnote]\r\nIn a crib full poorly,\r\nBetwixt two beasts.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> This was a quaint stevyn[footnote]voice[\/footnote]\u00a0that ever yet I heard.\r\nIt is a marvel to nevyn[footnote]name, relate[\/footnote]\u00a0thus to be scared.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Of God's son of heaven, he spoke up word.\r\nAll the wood like the levin,[footnote]lightning[\/footnote]\u00a0methought that he gard\r\nAppear.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> He spoke of a bairn\r\nIn Bedlem I you warn.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> That betokens yonder starn[footnote]star[\/footnote]\r\nLet us seek him there.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Say, what was his song? Heard ye not how he cracked it?\r\nThree breves to a long.[footnote]three short notes to a long one[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, marry, he hacked[footnote]shouted it out\u00a0it[\/footnote].\r\nWas no crochet wrong, nor no thing that lacked it.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> For to sing us among, right as he knacked it,\r\nI can.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Let us see how ye croon\r\nCan ye bark at the moon?\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Hold your tongues, have done.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hark after, then.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> To Bedlem he bade--that we should gang:\r\nI am full feared--that we tarry too lang.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Be merry and not sad: of mirth is our sang,\r\nEverlasting glad, our road may we fang,[footnote]take[\/footnote]\r\nWithout noise.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hie we thither quickly;\r\nIf we be wet and weary,\r\nTo that child and that lady\r\nWe have it not to slose.[footnote]delay[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> We find by the prophecy--let be your din--\r\nOf David and Esai, and more than I min;[footnote]can mind[\/footnote]\r\nThey prophesied by clergy, that on a virgin\r\nShould he light and ly, to pardon our sin\r\nAnd slake it,\r\nOur kind from woe;\r\nFor Esai said so,\r\n<i>Cite virgo\r\nConcipiet a child that is naked.<\/i>\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Full glad may we be,--and abide that day\r\nThat lovely to see,--that all mights may.\r\nLord, well for me,--for once and for aye,\r\nMight I kneel on my knee--some word for to say\r\nTo that child.\r\nBut the angel said\r\nIn a crib was he laid;\r\nHe was poorly arrayed,\r\nBoth meaner and mild.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Patriarchs that have been,--and prophets beforn,\r\nThey desired to have seen--this child that is born.\r\nThey are gone full clean,--that have they lorn.\r\nWe shall see him, I ween,--e'er it be morn\r\nBy token\r\nWhen I see him and feel,\r\nThen know I full weel\r\nIt is true as steel\r\nThat prophets have spoken.\r\nTo so poor as we are, that he would appear,\r\nFirst find, and declare by his messenger.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Go we now, let us fare: the place is us near.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I am ready and yare:[footnote]eager[\/footnote]\u00a0go we in fear\r\nTo that light!\r\nLord! if thy wills be,\r\nWe are lewdunlearn'd, rude\u00a0all three,\r\nThou grant us of thy glee,[footnote]happiness[\/footnote]\r\nTo comfort thy wight.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>The Shepherds arrive at Bethlehem.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, comely and clean; hail, young child!\r\nHail, maker, as I mean, of a maiden so mild!\r\nThou hast wared, I ween, off the warlock[footnote]demon, evil one[\/footnote]\u00a0so wild,\r\nThe false guiler of teen,[footnote]worker of evil. The \"he\" in the next line refers to the Holy Babe again[\/footnote]\u00a0now goes he beguiled.\r\nLo, he merry is!\r\nLo, he laughs, my sweeting,\r\nA welcome meeting!\r\nI have given my greeting\r\nHave a bob of cherries?\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, sovereign saviour, for thou hast us sought!\r\nHail freely, leaf and flow'r, that all thing has wrought!\r\nHail full of favour, that made all of nought!\r\nHail! I kneel and I cower. A bird have I brought\r\nTo my bairn!\r\nHail, little tiny mop,[footnote]pate, little tiny-pate[\/footnote]\r\nOf our creed thou are crop!\r\nI would drink in thy cup,\r\nLittle day-starn.[footnote]day-star[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, darling dear, full of godheed!\r\nI pray thee be near, when that I have need.\r\nHail! sweet is thy cheer: my heart would bleed\r\nTo see thee sit here in so poor weed.\r\nWith no pennies.\r\nHail! put forth thy dall!--[footnote]hand[\/footnote]\r\nI bring thee but a ball\r\nHave and play thee with all,\r\nAnd go to the tennis.\r\n\r\n<i>Mary.<\/i> The Father of Heaven, God omnipotent,\r\nThat set all on levin,[footnote]set all alight; gave light to all[\/footnote]\u00a0his son has he sent.\r\nMy name could he neven,[footnote]could he (<i>i.e.<\/i> the babe) tell, name[\/footnote]\u00a0and laught as he went.[footnote]weened; <i>i.e.<\/i> laughed as if he knew all about it[\/footnote]\r\nI conceived him full even, through might, as God meant;\r\nAnd new is he born.\r\nHe keep you from woe:\r\nI shall pray him so;\r\nTell forth as ye go,\r\nAnd mind on this morn.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Farewell, lady, so fair to behold,\r\nWith thy child on thy knee.\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> But he lies full cold,\r\nLord, well is me: now we go forth, behold!\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Forsooth, already it seems to be told\r\nFull oft.\r\n\r\n<i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> What grace we have fun.[footnote]found[\/footnote]\r\n\r\n<i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Come forth, now are we won.\r\n\r\n<i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> To sing are we bun:[footnote]bound[\/footnote]\r\nLet take on loft.[footnote]Let us sing it aloft, or aloud![\/footnote]","rendered":"<h3>CHARACTERS<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"charlist\">\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">1st Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">2nd Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">3rd Shepherd<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mac<\/span>, <i>the Sheep-stealer<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mac&#8217;s Wife, Gill<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">Mary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">The Child Christ<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"smallcaps\">An Angel<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>THE WAKEFIELD SECOND NATIVITY PLAY<\/h3>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Lord! what, these weathers are cold, and I am ill happed;<br \/>\nI am near hand-dold<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"numb of hand\" id=\"return-footnote-373-1\" href=\"#footnote-373-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a>,<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span>so long have I napped;<br \/>\nMy legs bend and fold, my fingers are chapped,<br \/>\nIt is not as I would, for I am all lapped<br \/>\nIn sorrow.<br \/>\nIn storms and tempest,<br \/>\nNow in the east, now in the west,<br \/>\nWoe is him has never rest,<br \/>\nMid day nor morrow.<br \/>\nBut we silly shepherds, that walk upon the moor,<br \/>\nIn faith, we are near hands out of the door;<br \/>\nNo wonder, as it stands, if we be poor,<br \/>\nFor the tilth of our lands lies fallow as the floor,<br \/>\nWe are so lamed,<br \/>\nSo taxed and shamed,<br \/>\nWe are made hand-tamed,<br \/>\nWith these gentlery-men.<br \/>\nThus they rieve us of rest, Our Lady them wary,<br \/>\nThese men that are lord-fest<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"fast tied (to a lord, as a public-house to a brewer)\" id=\"return-footnote-373-2\" href=\"#footnote-373-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a>,\u00a0they cause the plough tarry.<br \/>\nThat men say is for the best, we find it contrary,<br \/>\nThus are husbands<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\"><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"husbandmen\" id=\"return-footnote-373-3\" href=\"#footnote-373-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0opprest, in point to miscarry,<br \/>\nIn life.<br \/>\nThus hold they us under,<br \/>\nThus they bring us in blunder,<br \/>\nIt were great wonder,<br \/>\nAnd ever should we thrive.<br \/>\nFor may he get a paint sleeve<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"a painted sleeve\" id=\"return-footnote-373-4\" href=\"#footnote-373-4\" aria-label=\"Footnote 4\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[4]<\/sup><\/a>,\u00a0or a brooch now on days,<br \/>\nWoe is he that shall grieve, or once again says,<br \/>\nDare no man him reprieve, what mast&#8217;ry he has,<br \/>\nAnd yet may none believe one word that he says&#8211;<br \/>\nNo letter.<br \/>\nHe can make purveyance,<br \/>\nWith boast and bragance,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"bragging\" id=\"return-footnote-373-5\" href=\"#footnote-373-5\" aria-label=\"Footnote 5\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd all through maintenance,<br \/>\nOf men that are greater.<br \/>\nThere shall come a swain, as proud as a po,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"peacock\" id=\"return-footnote-373-6\" href=\"#footnote-373-6\" aria-label=\"Footnote 6\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nHe must borrow my wain, my plough also,<br \/>\nThen I am full fain to grant or he go.<br \/>\nThus live we in pain, anger, and woe,<br \/>\nBy night and day;<br \/>\nHe must have if he long\u00e9d<br \/>\nIf I should forgang<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"forego\" id=\"return-footnote-373-7\" href=\"#footnote-373-7\" aria-label=\"Footnote 7\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[7]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0it,<br \/>\nI were better be hang\u00e9d<br \/>\nThan once say him nay.<br \/>\nIt does me good, as I walk thus by mine own,<br \/>\nOf this world for to talk in manner of moan<br \/>\nTo my sheep will I stalk and hearken anon<br \/>\nThere abide on a balk, or sit on a stone<br \/>\nFull soon.<br \/>\nFor I trow, pardie!<br \/>\nTrue men if they be,<br \/>\nWe get more company<br \/>\nOr it be noon.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> &#8220;Beniste&#8221;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Benedicite\" id=\"return-footnote-373-8\" href=\"#footnote-373-8\" aria-label=\"Footnote 8\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[8]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and &#8220;Dominus!&#8221; what may this bemean?<br \/>\nWhy fares this world thus, oft have we not seen.<br \/>\nLord, these weathers are spitous,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"spiteful\" id=\"return-footnote-373-9\" href=\"#footnote-373-9\" aria-label=\"Footnote 9\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[9]<\/sup><\/a> and the weather full keen;<br \/>\nAnd the frost so hideous they water mine een,<br \/>\nNo lie.<br \/>\nNow in dry, now in wet,<br \/>\nNow in snow, now in sleet,<br \/>\nWhen my shoon freeze to my feet<br \/>\nIt is not all easy.<br \/>\nBut as far as I ken, or yet as I go,<br \/>\nWe silly wed-men dree mickle woe;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"we silly wedded men endure much woe\" id=\"return-footnote-373-10\" href=\"#footnote-373-10\" aria-label=\"Footnote 10\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[10]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWe have sorrow then and then, it falls often so,<br \/>\nSilly capyl, our hen, both to and fro<br \/>\nShe cackles,<br \/>\nBut begin she to croak,<br \/>\nTo groan or to cluck,<br \/>\nWoe is him, say of our cock,<br \/>\nFor he is in the shackles.<br \/>\nThese men that are wed, have not all their will,<br \/>\nWhen they are full hard sted,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"placed, bestead\" id=\"return-footnote-373-11\" href=\"#footnote-373-11\" aria-label=\"Footnote 11\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[11]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0they sigh full still;<br \/>\nGod wait they are led full hard and full ill,<br \/>\nIn bower nor in bed they say not there till<br \/>\nThis tide.<br \/>\nMy part have I found,<br \/>\nMy lesson is learn&#8217;d,<br \/>\nWoe is him that is bound,<br \/>\nFor he must abide.<br \/>\nBut now late in our lives, a marvel to me,<br \/>\nThat I think my heart rives,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"is riven asunder\" id=\"return-footnote-373-12\" href=\"#footnote-373-12\" aria-label=\"Footnote 12\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[12]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0such wonders to see,<br \/>\nWhat that destiny drives it should so be,<br \/>\nSome men will have two wives, and some men three,<br \/>\nIn store.<br \/>\nSome are woe that have any;<br \/>\nBut so far ken I,<br \/>\nWoe is he who has many,<br \/>\nFor he feels it sore.<br \/>\nBut young men of wooing, for God that you bought,<br \/>\nBe well ware of wedding, and think in your thought<br \/>\n&#8220;Had I wist&#8221; is a thing it serves ye of nought;<br \/>\nMickle still mourning has wedding home brought,<br \/>\nAnd griefs,<br \/>\nWith many a sharp shower,<br \/>\nFor thou may catch in an hour<br \/>\nThat shall serve thee full sour<br \/>\nAs long as thou lives.<br \/>\nFor as read I epistle, I have one to my fear<br \/>\nAs sharp as a thistle, as rough as a brere.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"briar\" id=\"return-footnote-373-13\" href=\"#footnote-373-13\" aria-label=\"Footnote 13\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[13]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nShe is browed like a bristle with a sour lenten cheer;<br \/>\nHad she once wet her whistle she could sing full clear<br \/>\nHer pater-noster.<br \/>\nShe is as great as a whale,<br \/>\nShe has a gallon of gall;<br \/>\nBy him that died for us all!<br \/>\nI would I had run till I lost her.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> God look over the row, full deafly ye stand.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, the devil in thy maw!&#8211;so tariand,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"tarrying\" id=\"return-footnote-373-14\" href=\"#footnote-373-14\" aria-label=\"Footnote 14\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[14]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nSaw thou aught now of Daw?<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, on a lea land<br \/>\nHeard I him blow, he comes here at hand,<br \/>\nNot far;<br \/>\nStand still.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Why?<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> For he comes here, hope I.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> He will make us both a lie,<br \/>\nBut if we beware.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Christ&#8217;s cross me speed, and Saint Nicholas!<br \/>\nThereof had I need, it is worse than it was.<br \/>\nWhoso could take heed, and let the world pass,<br \/>\nIt is ever in dread and brittle as glass,<br \/>\nAnd slithers,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"slithers, slides away\" id=\"return-footnote-373-15\" href=\"#footnote-373-15\" aria-label=\"Footnote 15\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[15]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThis world fared never so,<br \/>\nWith marvels mo and mo,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"more and more\" id=\"return-footnote-373-16\" href=\"#footnote-373-16\" aria-label=\"Footnote 16\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[16]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nNow in weal, now in woe,<br \/>\nAnd all things withers.<br \/>\nWas never since Noah&#8217;s flood such floods seen,<br \/>\nWinds and rains so rude, and storms so keen,<br \/>\nSome stammered, some stood in doubt, as I ween,<br \/>\nNow God turn all to good, I say as I mean,<br \/>\nFor ponder.<br \/>\nThese floods so they drown<br \/>\nBoth in fields and in town,<br \/>\nThey bear all down,<br \/>\nAnd that is a wonder.<br \/>\nWe that walk in the nights, our cattle to keep,<br \/>\nWe see sudden sights, when other men sleep:<br \/>\nYet methinks my heart lights, I see shrews peep,<br \/>\nYe are two, all wights,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"You are two who wit, or know, all\u00a0I will give my sheep\" id=\"return-footnote-373-17\" href=\"#footnote-373-17\" aria-label=\"Footnote 17\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[17]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nA turn.<br \/>\nBut full ill have I meant,<br \/>\nAs I walk on this bent,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"field\" id=\"return-footnote-373-18\" href=\"#footnote-373-18\" aria-label=\"Footnote 18\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[18]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI may lightly repent,<br \/>\nMy toes if I spurn.<br \/>\nAh, sir, God you save, and master mine!<br \/>\nA drink fain would I have and somewhat to dine.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Christ&#8217;s curs, my knave, thou art a lazy hyne.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"hind\" id=\"return-footnote-373-19\" href=\"#footnote-373-19\" aria-label=\"Footnote 19\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[19]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> What, the boy list rave. Abide until syne<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"till such time as we have made it\" id=\"return-footnote-373-20\" href=\"#footnote-373-20\" aria-label=\"Footnote 20\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[20]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWe have made it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll thrift on thy pate!<br \/>\nThough the shrew came late<br \/>\nYet is he in state<br \/>\nTo dine if he had it.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Such servants as I, that sweats and swinks,<br \/>\nEats our bread full dry, and that me forthinks;<br \/>\nWe are oft wet and weary when master men winks,<br \/>\nYet comes full lately both dinners and drinks,<br \/>\nBut neatly.<br \/>\nBoth our dame and our sire,<br \/>\nWhen we have run in the mire,<br \/>\nThey can nip at our hire,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"stint our wages\" id=\"return-footnote-373-21\" href=\"#footnote-373-21\" aria-label=\"Footnote 21\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[21]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd pay us full lately.<br \/>\nBut hear my truth, master, for the fare that ye make<br \/>\nI shall do thereafter work, as I take;<br \/>\nI shall do a little, sir, and strive and still lack,<br \/>\nFor yet lay my supper never on my stomack<br \/>\nIn fields.<br \/>\nWhereto should I threap?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"argue\" id=\"return-footnote-373-22\" href=\"#footnote-373-22\" aria-label=\"Footnote 22\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[22]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWith my staff can I leap,<br \/>\nAnd men say &#8220;light cheap<br \/>\nLetherly for yields.&#8221;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"a light bargain yields badly\" id=\"return-footnote-373-23\" href=\"#footnote-373-23\" aria-label=\"Footnote 23\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[23]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Thou wert an ill lad, to ride on wooing<br \/>\nWith a man that had but little of spending.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Peace, boy!&#8211;I bade: no more jangling,<br \/>\nOr I shall make thee afraid, by the heaven&#8217;s king!<br \/>\nWith thy gawds;<br \/>\nWhere are our sheep, boy, we scorn?<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Sir, this same day at morn,<br \/>\nI them left in the corn,<br \/>\nWhen they rang lauds;<br \/>\nThey have pasture good, they cannot go wrong.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> That is right by the rood, these nights are long,<br \/>\nYet I would, or we yode,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"went\" id=\"return-footnote-373-24\" href=\"#footnote-373-24\" aria-label=\"Footnote 24\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[24]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0one gave us a song.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> So I thought as I stood, to mirth us among.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"to make mirth among us\" id=\"return-footnote-373-25\" href=\"#footnote-373-25\" aria-label=\"Footnote 25\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[25]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I grant.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Let me sing the tenory.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> And I the treble so high.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Then the mean falls to me;<br \/>\nLet see how ye chaunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac enters, with a cloak thrown over his smock.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Now, Lord, for thy names seven, that made both moon and starns<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"stars\" id=\"return-footnote-373-26\" href=\"#footnote-373-26\" aria-label=\"Footnote 26\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[26]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWell more than I can even: thy will, Lord, of my thorns;<br \/>\nI am all uneven, that moves oft my horns,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"&quot;harnes&quot; in original, which may mean &quot;harness&quot;\" id=\"return-footnote-373-27\" href=\"#footnote-373-27\" aria-label=\"Footnote 27\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[27]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nNow would God I were in heaven, for there weep no bairns<br \/>\nSo still.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Who is that pipes so poor?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Would God ye knew how I fare!<br \/>\nLo, a man that walks on the moor,<br \/>\nAnd has not all his will.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, where hast thou gone? Tell us tidings.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Is he come? Then each one take heed to his things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Takes his cloak from him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> What, I am a yeoman, I tell you, of the king;<br \/>\nThe self and the same, sent from a great lording,<br \/>\nAnd sich.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"such (of such)\" id=\"return-footnote-373-28\" href=\"#footnote-373-28\" aria-label=\"Footnote 28\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[28]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nFy on you, get thee hence,<br \/>\nOut of my presence,<br \/>\nI must have reverence,<br \/>\nWhy, who be ich?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"I\" id=\"return-footnote-373-29\" href=\"#footnote-373-29\" aria-label=\"Footnote 29\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[29]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Why make ye it so quaint? Mac, ye do wrong.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> But, Mac, list, ye saint? I trow that ye sang.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I trow the shrew can paint, the devil might him hang!<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> I shall make complaint, and make you all to thwang.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"be thwacked, or flogged\" id=\"return-footnote-373-30\" href=\"#footnote-373-30\" aria-label=\"Footnote 30\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[30]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAt a word,<br \/>\nAnd tell even how ye doth.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> But, Mac, is that sooth?<br \/>\nNow take out that southern tooth,<br \/>\nAnd set in a tord.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, the devil in your ee,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"eye\" id=\"return-footnote-373-31\" href=\"#footnote-373-31\" aria-label=\"Footnote 31\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[31]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0a stroke would I lend you.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, know ye not me? By God, I could tell you.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> God look you all three, methought I had seen you.<br \/>\nYe are a fair company.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Can ye now moan you?<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Shrew, jape!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"jest\" id=\"return-footnote-373-32\" href=\"#footnote-373-32\" aria-label=\"Footnote 32\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[32]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThus late as thou goes,<br \/>\nWhat will men suppose?<br \/>\nAnd thou hast an ill noise<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"rumour (ill repute)\" id=\"return-footnote-373-33\" href=\"#footnote-373-33\" aria-label=\"Footnote 33\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[33]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nOf stealing of sheep.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> And I am true as steel all men wait,<br \/>\nBut a sickness I feel, that holds me full haytt,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"hot\" id=\"return-footnote-373-34\" href=\"#footnote-373-34\" aria-label=\"Footnote 34\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[34]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nMy belly fares not well, it is out of its state.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Seldom lies the devil dead by the gate.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Therefore<br \/>\nFull sore am I and ill,<br \/>\nIf I stand stock still;<br \/>\nI eat not a nedyll<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"needle--not a little bit\" id=\"return-footnote-373-35\" href=\"#footnote-373-35\" aria-label=\"Footnote 35\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[35]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThis month and more.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> How fares thy wife? By my hood, how fares she?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Lies weltering! by the rood! by the fire, lo!<br \/>\nAnd a house full of brood,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"brood, children\" id=\"return-footnote-373-36\" href=\"#footnote-373-36\" aria-label=\"Footnote 36\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[36]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0she drinks well too,<br \/>\nIll speed other good that she will do;<br \/>\nBut so<br \/>\nEats as fast as she can,<br \/>\nAnd each year that comes to man,<br \/>\nShe brings forth a lakan,plaything<br \/>\nAnd some years two.<br \/>\nBut were I not more gracious, and richer by far,<br \/>\nI were eaten out of house, and of harbour,<br \/>\nYet is she a foul dowse, if ye come near.<br \/>\nThere is none that trows, nor knows, a war<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"worse\" id=\"return-footnote-373-37\" href=\"#footnote-373-37\" aria-label=\"Footnote 37\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[37]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThan ken I.<br \/>\nNow will ye see what I proffer,<br \/>\nTo give all in my coffer<br \/>\nTo-morrow next to offer,<br \/>\nHer head mass-penn\u00fd.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I wot so forwaked<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"early waked, or perhaps, wearied by watching\" id=\"return-footnote-373-38\" href=\"#footnote-373-38\" aria-label=\"Footnote 38\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[38]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0is none in this shire:<br \/>\nI would sleep if I taked less to my hire.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I am cold and naked, and would have a fire.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> I am weary for-raked,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"over-walked\" id=\"return-footnote-373-39\" href=\"#footnote-373-39\" aria-label=\"Footnote 39\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[39]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and run in the mire.<br \/>\nWake thou!<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Nay, I will lie down-by,<br \/>\nFor I must sleep truly.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> As good a man&#8217;s son was I<br \/>\nAs any of you.<br \/>\nBut, Mac, come hither, between us shalt thou lie.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I stay you bedene<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"at once\" id=\"return-footnote-373-40\" href=\"#footnote-373-40\" aria-label=\"Footnote 40\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[40]<\/sup><\/a>: of that ye would say,&#8211;<br \/>\nNo dread.<br \/>\nFrom my head to my toe<br \/>\n<i>Mantis tuas commendo,<br \/>\nPontio Pilato.<\/i><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Into thy hands I commend (them), Pontius Pilate\" id=\"return-footnote-373-41\" href=\"#footnote-373-41\" aria-label=\"Footnote 41\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[41]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nChrist&#8217;s cross me speed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He rises, the shepherds sleeping, and says:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now were time for a man, that lacks what he wold,<br \/>\nTo stalk privately then into a fold,<br \/>\nAnd namely to work then, and be not too bold,<br \/>\nHe might abide the bargain, if it were told<br \/>\nAt the ending.<br \/>\nNow were time for to revel;<br \/>\nBut he needs good counsel<br \/>\nThat fain would fare well,<br \/>\nAnd has but little spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac works a spell on them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But about you a circle, as round as a moon,<br \/>\nTill I have done that I will, till that it be noon,<br \/>\nThat ye lie stone-still, till that I have done,<br \/>\nAnd I shall say there till of good words a foyn<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"few\" id=\"return-footnote-373-42\" href=\"#footnote-373-42\" aria-label=\"Footnote 42\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[42]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nOn height;<br \/>\nOver your heads my hand I lift,<br \/>\nOut go your eyes, fore to do your sight,<br \/>\nBut yet I must make better shift,<br \/>\nAnd it be right.<br \/>\nWhat, Lord? they sleep hard! that may ye all hear;<br \/>\nWas I never a shepherd, but now will I leer<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"learn\" id=\"return-footnote-373-43\" href=\"#footnote-373-43\" aria-label=\"Footnote 43\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[43]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nIf the flock be scared, yet shall I nap near,<br \/>\nWho draws hitherward, now mends our cheer,<br \/>\nFrom sorrow:<br \/>\nA fat sheep I dare say,<br \/>\nA good fleece dare I lay,<br \/>\nEft white when I may,<br \/>\nBut this will I borrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He steals a sheep and goes home.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac<\/i> (<i>at his own door<\/i>). How, Gill, art thou in? Get us some light.<\/p>\n<p><i>His Wife.<\/i> Who makes such din this time of night?<br \/>\nI am set for to spin: I hope not I might<br \/>\nRise a penny to win: I shrew them on height.<br \/>\nSo fares<br \/>\nA housewife that has been<br \/>\nTo be raised thus between:<br \/>\nThere may no note be seen<br \/>\nFor such small chares.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"chare,--job, as in charwoman\" id=\"return-footnote-373-44\" href=\"#footnote-373-44\" aria-label=\"Footnote 44\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[44]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Good wife, open the hek.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"wicket\" id=\"return-footnote-373-45\" href=\"#footnote-373-45\" aria-label=\"Footnote 45\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[45]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0See&#8217;st thou not what I bring?<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> I may let thee draw the sneck. Ah! come in, my sweeting.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Yea, thou dost not reck of my long standing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> By thy naked neck, thou art like for to hang.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Go away:<br \/>\nI am worthy of my meat,<br \/>\nFor in a strait can I get<br \/>\nMore than they that swinck<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"toil\" id=\"return-footnote-373-46\" href=\"#footnote-373-46\" aria-label=\"Footnote 46\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[46]<\/sup><\/a> and sweat<br \/>\nAll the long day,<br \/>\nThus it fell to my lot, Gill, I had such grace.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> It were a foul blot to be hanged for the case.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> I have scaped, Jelott, oft as hard as glass.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> &#8220;But so long goes the pot to the water,&#8221; men says,<br \/>\n&#8220;At last comes it home broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Well know I the token,<br \/>\nBut let it never be spoken;<br \/>\nBut come and help fast.<br \/>\nI would he were flayn;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"flayed\" id=\"return-footnote-373-47\" href=\"#footnote-373-47\" aria-label=\"Footnote 47\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[47]<\/sup><\/a> I list we&#8217;ll eat:<br \/>\nThis twelvemonth was I not so fain of one sheep-meat.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Come they if he be slain, and hear the sheep bleat?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I be ta&#8217;en: that were a cold sweat.<br \/>\nGo bar<br \/>\nThe gate door.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Yes, Mac,<br \/>\nFor and they come at thy back.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Then might I pay for all the pack:<br \/>\nThe devil of them war!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"The devil of them give warning\" id=\"return-footnote-373-48\" href=\"#footnote-373-48\" aria-label=\"Footnote 48\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[48]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> A good bowrde<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"jest\" id=\"return-footnote-373-49\" href=\"#footnote-373-49\" aria-label=\"Footnote 49\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[49]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0have I spied, since thou can none:<br \/>\nHere shall we him hide, till they be gone;<br \/>\nIn my cradle abide. Let me alone,<br \/>\nAnd I shall lie beside in childbed and groan.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Thou red?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"advisest, sayest so?\" id=\"return-footnote-373-50\" href=\"#footnote-373-50\" aria-label=\"Footnote 50\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[50]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd I shall say thou wast light<br \/>\nOf a knave child this night.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Now well is my day bright,<br \/>\nThat ever I was bred.<br \/>\nThis is a good guise and a far cast;<br \/>\nYet a woman&#8217;s advice helps at the last.<br \/>\nI care never who spies: again go thou fast.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> But I come or they rise; else blows a cold blast&#8211;<br \/>\nI will go sleep. <span class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Mac goes back to the field.<\/i><\/span><br \/>\nYet sleep all this menye,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"company\" id=\"return-footnote-373-51\" href=\"#footnote-373-51\" aria-label=\"Footnote 51\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[51]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd I shall go stalk privily,<br \/>\nAs it had never been I<br \/>\nThat carried their sheep.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> <i>Resurrex \u00e0 mortrius<\/i>: have hold my hand.<br \/>\n<i>Judas carnas dominus<\/i>, I may not well stand:<br \/>\nMy foot sleeps, by Jesus, and I water fastand!<br \/>\nI thought that we laid us full near England.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ah ye!<br \/>\nLord, how I have slept weel!<br \/>\nAs fresh as an eel,<br \/>\nAs light I me feel<br \/>\nAs leaf on a tree.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Benste!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Benedicite\" id=\"return-footnote-373-52\" href=\"#footnote-373-52\" aria-label=\"Footnote 52\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[52]<\/sup><\/a> be herein! So my head quakes<br \/>\nMy heart is out of skin, what so it makes.<br \/>\nWho makes all this din? So my brow aches,<br \/>\nTo the door will I win. Hark fellows, wakes!<br \/>\nWe were four:<br \/>\nSee ye anything of Mac now?<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> We were up ere thou.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Man, I give God a vow,<br \/>\nYet heed he nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Methought he was wrapped in a wolf&#8217;s-skin.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> So are many happed, now namely within.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> When we had long napped; methought with a gin<br \/>\nA fat sheep he trapped, but he made no din.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Be still:<br \/>\nThy dream makes thee wood:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"mad\" id=\"return-footnote-373-53\" href=\"#footnote-373-53\" aria-label=\"Footnote 53\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[53]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nIt is but phantom, by the rood.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Now God turn all to good,<br \/>\nIf it be his will.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Rise, Mac, for shame! thou ly&#8217;st right long.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Now Christ, his holy name be us amang,<br \/>\nWhat is this? for Saint James!&#8211;I may not well gang.<br \/>\nI trust I be the same. Ah! my neck has lain wrang<br \/>\nEnough<br \/>\nMickle thank, since yester-even<br \/>\nNow, by Saint Stephen!<br \/>\nI was flayed with a sweven,&#8211;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"dream\" id=\"return-footnote-373-54\" href=\"#footnote-373-54\" aria-label=\"Footnote 54\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[54]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nMy heart out of slough.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"sloth(?)\" id=\"return-footnote-373-55\" href=\"#footnote-373-55\" aria-label=\"Footnote 55\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[55]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI thought Gill began to croak, and travail full sad,<br \/>\nWell nigh at the first cock,&#8211;of a young lad,<br \/>\nFor to mend our flock: then be I never glad.<br \/>\nTo have two on my rock,&#8211;more than ever I had.<br \/>\nAh, my head!<br \/>\nA house full of young tharmes,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"bellies\" id=\"return-footnote-373-56\" href=\"#footnote-373-56\" aria-label=\"Footnote 56\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[56]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThe devil knock out their harnes!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"brains\" id=\"return-footnote-373-57\" href=\"#footnote-373-57\" aria-label=\"Footnote 57\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[57]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWoe is he has many bairns,<br \/>\nAnd thereto little bread.<br \/>\nI must go home, by your leave, to Gill as I thought.<br \/>\nI pray you look my sleeve, that I steal nought:<br \/>\nI am loth you to grieve, or from you take aught.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Go forth, ill might thou chefe,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"prosper\" id=\"return-footnote-373-58\" href=\"#footnote-373-58\" aria-label=\"Footnote 58\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[58]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0now would I we sought,<br \/>\nThis morn,<br \/>\nThat we had all our store.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> But I will go before,<br \/>\nLet us meet.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Whor?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"where\" id=\"return-footnote-373-59\" href=\"#footnote-373-59\" aria-label=\"Footnote 59\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[59]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> At the crooked thorn.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac (at his own door again).<\/i> Undo this door! who is here? How long shall I stand?<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Who makes such a stir?&#8211;Now walk in the wenyand.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"waning moon\" id=\"return-footnote-373-60\" href=\"#footnote-373-60\" aria-label=\"Footnote 60\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[60]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Ah, Gill, what cheer?&#8211;It is I, Mac, your husband.<\/p>\n<p><i>His Wife.<\/i> Then may we be here,&#8211;the devil in a band,<br \/>\nSir Gile.<br \/>\nLo, he commys<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"comes\" id=\"return-footnote-373-61\" href=\"#footnote-373-61\" aria-label=\"Footnote 61\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[61]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0with a lot,<br \/>\nAs he were holden in the throat.<br \/>\nI may not sit, work or not<br \/>\nA hand long while.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Will ye hear what fare she makes&#8211;to get her a glose,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"lie\" id=\"return-footnote-373-62\" href=\"#footnote-373-62\" aria-label=\"Footnote 62\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[62]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd do naught but lakes<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"plays\" id=\"return-footnote-373-63\" href=\"#footnote-373-63\" aria-label=\"Footnote 63\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[63]<\/sup><\/a>&#8211;and close her toes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Why, who wanders, who wakes,&#8211;who comes, who goes?<br \/>\nWho brews, who bakes? Who makes for me this hose?<br \/>\nAnd then<br \/>\nIt is ruth to behold,<br \/>\nNow in hot, now in cold,<br \/>\nFull woful is the household<br \/>\nThat wants a woman.<br \/>\nBut what end hast thou made with the herds, Mac?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> The last word that they said,&#8211;when I turned my back,<br \/>\nThey would look that they had&#8211;their sheep all the pack.<br \/>\nI hope they will not be well paid,&#8211;when they their sheep lack.<br \/>\nPerdie!<br \/>\nBut howso the game goes,<br \/>\nTo me they will suppose,<br \/>\nAnd make a foul noise,<br \/>\nAnd cry out upon me.<br \/>\nBut thou must do as thou hight,<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> I accord me thertylle.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"thereto\" id=\"return-footnote-373-64\" href=\"#footnote-373-64\" aria-label=\"Footnote 64\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[64]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI shall swaddle him right in my cradle.<br \/>\nIf it were a greater slight, yet could I help till.<br \/>\nI will lie down straight. Come hap me.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> I will.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Behind,<br \/>\nCome Coll and his marrow,<br \/>\nThey will nip us full narrow.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> But I may cry out &#8220;Harro!&#8221;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Help! or Halloo!\" id=\"return-footnote-373-65\" href=\"#footnote-373-65\" aria-label=\"Footnote 65\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[65]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThe sheep if they find.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Hearken aye when they call: they will come anon.<br \/>\nCome and make ready all, and sing by thine own,<br \/>\nSing &#8220;Lullay!&#8221; thou shall, for I must groan,<br \/>\nAnd cry out by the wall on Mary and John,<br \/>\nFor sore.<br \/>\nSing &#8220;Lullay&#8221; full fast<br \/>\nWhen thou hears at the last;<br \/>\nAnd but I play a false cast<br \/>\nTrust me no more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Re-enter the Three Shepherds.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Ah, Coll! good morn:&#8211;why sleepest thou not?<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Alas, that ever was I born!&#8211;we have a foul blot.<br \/>\nA fat wether have we lorne.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"lost\" id=\"return-footnote-373-66\" href=\"#footnote-373-66\" aria-label=\"Footnote 66\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[66]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Marry, Godys forbot!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"God forbid\" id=\"return-footnote-373-67\" href=\"#footnote-373-67\" aria-label=\"Footnote 67\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[67]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Who should do us that scorn? That were a foul spot.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Some shrew.<br \/>\nI have sought with my dogs,<br \/>\nAll Horbery shrogs,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Horbery Shrubberies, near Wakefield\" id=\"return-footnote-373-68\" href=\"#footnote-373-68\" aria-label=\"Footnote 68\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[68]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd of fifteen hogs<br \/>\nFound I but one ewe.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Now trust me if you will;&#8211;by Saint Thomas of Kent!<br \/>\nEither Mac or Gill&#8211;was at that assent.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Peace, man, be still;&#8211;I saw when he went.<br \/>\nThou slander&#8217;st him ill; thou ought to repent.<br \/>\nGood speed.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Now as ever might I thee,<br \/>\nIf I should even here dee,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"die\" id=\"return-footnote-373-69\" href=\"#footnote-373-69\" aria-label=\"Footnote 69\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[69]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI would say it were he,<br \/>\nThat did that same deed.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Go we thither I rede,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"advise\" id=\"return-footnote-373-70\" href=\"#footnote-373-70\" aria-label=\"Footnote 70\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[70]<\/sup><\/a>&#8211;and run on our feet.<br \/>\nMay I never eat bread,&#8211;the truth till I wit.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Nor drink, in my heed,&#8211;with him till I meet.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I will rest in no stead, till that I him greet,<br \/>\nMy brother<br \/>\nOne I will hight:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"call\" id=\"return-footnote-373-71\" href=\"#footnote-373-71\" aria-label=\"Footnote 71\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[71]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nTill I see him in sight<br \/>\nShall I never sleep one night<br \/>\nThere I do another.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Will ye hear how they hack,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"&quot;take on,&quot; make game\" id=\"return-footnote-373-72\" href=\"#footnote-373-72\" aria-label=\"Footnote 72\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[72]<\/sup><\/a>&#8211;Our Sire! list, how they croon!<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hard I never none crack,&#8211;so clear out of tune.<br \/>\nCall on him.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac! undo your door soon.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Who is it that spoke,&#8211;as it were noon?<br \/>\nOn loft,<br \/>\nWho is that I say?<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Good fellows! were it day?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> As far as ye may,&#8211;<br \/>\nGood, speak ye soft!<br \/>\nOver a sick woman&#8217;s head,&#8211;that is ill mate ease,<br \/>\nI had liefer be dead,&#8211;or she had any disease.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Go to another stead; I may not well queasse<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"breathe\" id=\"return-footnote-373-73\" href=\"#footnote-373-73\" aria-label=\"Footnote 73\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[73]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nEach foot that ye tread&#8211;goes near make me sneeze<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"nose (?) The &quot;so he&quot; is meant for a she\" id=\"return-footnote-373-74\" href=\"#footnote-373-74\" aria-label=\"Footnote 74\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[74]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nSo he!<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Tell us, Mac, if ye may,<br \/>\nHow fare ye, I say?<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> But are ye in this town to-day?<br \/>\nNow how fare ye?<br \/>\nYe have run in the mire, and are wet yit:<br \/>\nI shall make you a fire, if ye will sit.<br \/>\nA horse would I hire; think ye on it.<br \/>\nWell quit is my hire, my dream&#8211;this is it.<br \/>\nA season.<br \/>\nI have bairns if ye knew,<br \/>\nWell more than enew,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"enow, enough\" id=\"return-footnote-373-75\" href=\"#footnote-373-75\" aria-label=\"Footnote 75\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[75]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nBut we must drink as we brew,<br \/>\nAnd that is but reason.<br \/>\nI would ye dined e&#8217;er ye yode:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"went\" id=\"return-footnote-373-76\" href=\"#footnote-373-76\" aria-label=\"Footnote 76\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[76]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0methink that ye sweat.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Nay, neither mends our mode, drink nor meat.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Why, sir, ails you aught, but good?<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yes, our sheep that we gat,<br \/>\nAre stolen as they yode.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"went, were grazing\" id=\"return-footnote-373-77\" href=\"#footnote-373-77\" aria-label=\"Footnote 77\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[77]<\/sup><\/a>Our loss is great.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Sirs, drink\u00fds!<br \/>\nHad I been there,<br \/>\nSome should have bought it full dear.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Marry, some men trows that ye were,<br \/>\nAnd that us forethink\u00fds.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"bothers us, makes us suspect\" id=\"return-footnote-373-78\" href=\"#footnote-373-78\" aria-label=\"Footnote 78\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[78]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, some men trows that it should be ye.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Either ye or your spouse; so say we.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Now if ye have suspouse<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"suspicion\" id=\"return-footnote-373-79\" href=\"#footnote-373-79\" aria-label=\"Footnote 79\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[79]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0to Gill or to me,<br \/>\nCome and rip our house, and then may ye see<br \/>\nWho had her.<br \/>\nIf I any sheep got,<br \/>\nEither cow or stot,<br \/>\nAnd Gill, my wife rose not<br \/>\nHere since she laid her.<br \/>\nAs I am both true and leal, to God here I pray,<br \/>\nThat this be the first meal, I shall eat this day.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, as I have weal, arise thee, I say!<br \/>\n&#8220;He learned timely to steal, that could not say nay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> I swelt.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"swelter\" id=\"return-footnote-373-80\" href=\"#footnote-373-80\" aria-label=\"Footnote 80\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[80]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nOut thieves from my once!<br \/>\nYe come to rob us for the nonce.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Hear ye not how she groans?<br \/>\nYour heart should melt.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Out thieves, from my bairn! Nigh him not thore.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Knew ye how she had farne,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"fared\" id=\"return-footnote-373-81\" href=\"#footnote-373-81\" aria-label=\"Footnote 81\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[81]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0your hearts would be sore.<br \/>\nYe do wrong, I you warn, that thus commys before<br \/>\nTo a woman that has farn;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"been in labour\" id=\"return-footnote-373-82\" href=\"#footnote-373-82\" aria-label=\"Footnote 82\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[82]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0but I say no more.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> Ah, my middle!<br \/>\nI pray to God so mild,<br \/>\nIf ever I you beguiled,<br \/>\nThat I eat this child,<br \/>\nThat lies in this cradle.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Peace, woman, for God&#8217;s pain, and cry not so:<br \/>\nThou spill&#8217;st thy brain, and mak&#8217;st me full woe.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I know our sheep be slain, what find ye too?<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> All work we in vain: as well may we go.<br \/>\nBut hatters.confound it<br \/>\nI can find no flesh,<br \/>\nHard nor nesh,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"soft\" id=\"return-footnote-373-83\" href=\"#footnote-373-83\" aria-label=\"Footnote 83\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[83]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nSalt nor fresh,<br \/>\nBut two tome<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"empty\" id=\"return-footnote-373-84\" href=\"#footnote-373-84\" aria-label=\"Footnote 84\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[84]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0platters:<br \/>\nNo cattle but this, tame nor wild,<br \/>\nNone, as have I bliss; as loud as he smiled.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> No, so God me bliss, and give me joy of my child.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> We have mark\u00ebd amiss: I hold us beguiled.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Sir, done!<br \/>\nSir, our lady him save,<br \/>\nIs your child a knave?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"a boy\" id=\"return-footnote-373-85\" href=\"#footnote-373-85\" aria-label=\"Footnote 85\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[85]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Any lord might him have<br \/>\nThis child to his son.<br \/>\nWhen he wakens he skips, that joy is to see.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> In good time, be his steps, and happy they be!<br \/>\nBut who was his gossips, tell now to me!<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> So fair fall their lips!<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd (aside).<\/i> Hark now, a lee!<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"a lie\" id=\"return-footnote-373-86\" href=\"#footnote-373-86\" aria-label=\"Footnote 86\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[86]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> So God them thank,<br \/>\nParkin, and Gibbon Waller, I say,<br \/>\nAnd gentle John Horne, in good fay,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"faith\" id=\"return-footnote-373-87\" href=\"#footnote-373-87\" aria-label=\"Footnote 87\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[87]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nHe made all the garray,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"hubbub\" id=\"return-footnote-373-88\" href=\"#footnote-373-88\" aria-label=\"Footnote 88\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[88]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWith the great shank.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Mac, friends will we be, for we are all one.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Why! now I hold for me, for help get I none.<br \/>\nFarewell all three: all glad were ye gone.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Fair words may there be, but love there is none.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Gave ye the child anything?<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> I trust not one farthing.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Fast again will I fling,<br \/>\nAbide ye me there. <span class=\"stagedir\">[<i>He returns to Mac&#8217;s cot.<\/i><\/span><br \/>\nMac, take it to no grief, if I come to thy barn.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Nay, thou dost me great reprieve, and foul hast thou farne.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"done\" id=\"return-footnote-373-89\" href=\"#footnote-373-89\" aria-label=\"Footnote 89\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[89]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> The child will it not grieve, that little day starn.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"day-star\" id=\"return-footnote-373-90\" href=\"#footnote-373-90\" aria-label=\"Footnote 90\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[90]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nMac, with your leave, let me give your bairn,<br \/>\nBut sixpence.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Nay, go &#8216;way: he sleepys.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Methink he peepys.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> When he wakens he weepys.<br \/>\nI pray you go hence.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Give me leave him to kiss, and lift up the clout.<br \/>\nWhat the devil is this? He has a long snout.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> He is marked amiss. We wait ill about.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ill spun weft, I wis, aye cometh foul out;<br \/>\nAye so;<br \/>\nHe is like to our sheep.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> How, Gib, may I peep?<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> I trow, kind will creep,<br \/>\nWhere it may not go.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> This was a quaint gaud,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"gem, something prankt out, or shown off, like a false gem\" id=\"return-footnote-373-91\" href=\"#footnote-373-91\" aria-label=\"Footnote 91\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[91]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and a far cast<br \/>\nIt was a high fraud.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, sirs, was&#8217;t.<br \/>\nLet burn this bawd and bind her fast.<br \/>\nA false skawd<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"scold\" id=\"return-footnote-373-92\" href=\"#footnote-373-92\" aria-label=\"Footnote 92\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[92]<\/sup><\/a> hangs at the last;<br \/>\nSo shall thou.<br \/>\nWill ye see how they swaddle<br \/>\nHis four feet in the middle?<br \/>\nSaw I never in a cradle<br \/>\nA horn\u00ebd lad e&#8217;er now.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> Peace bid I: what! let be your fare;<br \/>\nI am he that him gat, and yond woman him bare.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> What devil shall he halt?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"hight, be called\" id=\"return-footnote-373-93\" href=\"#footnote-373-93\" aria-label=\"Footnote 93\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[93]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Mac, lo, God makes air.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Let be all that. Now God give him care!<br \/>\nI sagh.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"say\" id=\"return-footnote-373-94\" href=\"#footnote-373-94\" aria-label=\"Footnote 94\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[94]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> A pretty child is he,<br \/>\nAs sits upon a woman&#8217;s knee;<br \/>\nA dylly-downe, perdie!<br \/>\nTo make a man laugh.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I know him by the ear mark:&#8211;that is a good token.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> I tell you, sirs, hark:&#8211;his nose was broken.<br \/>\nSince then, told me a clerk,&#8211;that he was forespoken.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"bewitched\" id=\"return-footnote-373-95\" href=\"#footnote-373-95\" aria-label=\"Footnote 95\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[95]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> This is a false work.&#8211;I would fain be wroken:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"be avenged, wreak vengeance\" id=\"return-footnote-373-96\" href=\"#footnote-373-96\" aria-label=\"Footnote 96\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[96]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nGet a weapon!<\/p>\n<p><i>Wife.<\/i> He was taken by an elf;<i><\/i><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"i.e. for a changeling\" id=\"return-footnote-373-97\" href=\"#footnote-373-97\" aria-label=\"Footnote 97\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[97]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI saw it myself.<br \/>\nWhen the clock struck twelve,<br \/>\nWas he mis-shapen.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Ye two are right deft,&#8211;same in a stead.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Since they maintain their theft,&#8211;let&#8217;s do them to dead.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mac.<\/i> If I trespass eft, gird off my head.<br \/>\nWith you will I be left.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Sirs, do my red<br \/>\nFor this trespass,<br \/>\nWe will neither ban nor flyte<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"curse nor flout\" id=\"return-footnote-373-98\" href=\"#footnote-373-98\" aria-label=\"Footnote 98\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[98]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nFight, nor chyte,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"chide\" id=\"return-footnote-373-99\" href=\"#footnote-373-99\" aria-label=\"Footnote 99\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[99]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nBut seize him tight,<br \/>\nAnd cast him in canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>They toss Mac for his sins.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd<\/i> (<i>as the three return to the fold<\/i>). Lord, how I am sore, in point for to tryst:<br \/>\nIn faith I may no more, therefore will I rest.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> As a sheep of seven score, he weighed in my fist.<br \/>\nFor to sleep anywhere, methink that I list.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Now I pray you,<br \/>\nLie down on this green.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> On these thefts yet I mean.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Whereto should ye tene?<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"vex about it\" id=\"return-footnote-373-100\" href=\"#footnote-373-100\" aria-label=\"Footnote 100\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[100]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nDo as I say you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>Enter an Angel above, who sings &#8220;Gloria in Excelsis,&#8221; then says:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rise, hired-men, heynd,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"gracious\" id=\"return-footnote-373-101\" href=\"#footnote-373-101\" aria-label=\"Footnote 101\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[101]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0for now is he born<br \/>\nThat shall take from the fiend, that Adam had lorn:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"lost\" id=\"return-footnote-373-102\" href=\"#footnote-373-102\" aria-label=\"Footnote 102\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[102]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThat warlock to sheynd,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"destroy\" id=\"return-footnote-373-103\" href=\"#footnote-373-103\" aria-label=\"Footnote 103\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[103]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0this night is he born.<br \/>\nGod is made your friend: now at this morn,<br \/>\nHe behests;<br \/>\nTo Bedlem go see,<br \/>\nThere lies that free<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"free, or divine, One\" id=\"return-footnote-373-104\" href=\"#footnote-373-104\" aria-label=\"Footnote 104\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[104]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nIn a crib full poorly,<br \/>\nBetwixt two beasts.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> This was a quaint stevyn<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"voice\" id=\"return-footnote-373-105\" href=\"#footnote-373-105\" aria-label=\"Footnote 105\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[105]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0that ever yet I heard.<br \/>\nIt is a marvel to nevyn<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"name, relate\" id=\"return-footnote-373-106\" href=\"#footnote-373-106\" aria-label=\"Footnote 106\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[106]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0thus to be scared.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Of God&#8217;s son of heaven, he spoke up word.<br \/>\nAll the wood like the levin,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"lightning\" id=\"return-footnote-373-107\" href=\"#footnote-373-107\" aria-label=\"Footnote 107\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[107]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0methought that he gard<br \/>\nAppear.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> He spoke of a bairn<br \/>\nIn Bedlem I you warn.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> That betokens yonder starn<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"star\" id=\"return-footnote-373-108\" href=\"#footnote-373-108\" aria-label=\"Footnote 108\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[108]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nLet us seek him there.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Say, what was his song? Heard ye not how he cracked it?<br \/>\nThree breves to a long.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"three short notes to a long one\" id=\"return-footnote-373-109\" href=\"#footnote-373-109\" aria-label=\"Footnote 109\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[109]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Yea, marry, he hacked<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"shouted it out\u00a0it\" id=\"return-footnote-373-110\" href=\"#footnote-373-110\" aria-label=\"Footnote 110\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[110]<\/sup><\/a>.<br \/>\nWas no crochet wrong, nor no thing that lacked it.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> For to sing us among, right as he knacked it,<br \/>\nI can.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Let us see how ye croon<br \/>\nCan ye bark at the moon?<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Hold your tongues, have done.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hark after, then.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> To Bedlem he bade&#8211;that we should gang:<br \/>\nI am full feared&#8211;that we tarry too lang.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Be merry and not sad: of mirth is our sang,<br \/>\nEverlasting glad, our road may we fang,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"take\" id=\"return-footnote-373-111\" href=\"#footnote-373-111\" aria-label=\"Footnote 111\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[111]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nWithout noise.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hie we thither quickly;<br \/>\nIf we be wet and weary,<br \/>\nTo that child and that lady<br \/>\nWe have it not to slose.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"delay\" id=\"return-footnote-373-112\" href=\"#footnote-373-112\" aria-label=\"Footnote 112\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[112]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> We find by the prophecy&#8211;let be your din&#8211;<br \/>\nOf David and Esai, and more than I min;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"can mind\" id=\"return-footnote-373-113\" href=\"#footnote-373-113\" aria-label=\"Footnote 113\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[113]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nThey prophesied by clergy, that on a virgin<br \/>\nShould he light and ly, to pardon our sin<br \/>\nAnd slake it,<br \/>\nOur kind from woe;<br \/>\nFor Esai said so,<br \/>\n<i>Cite virgo<br \/>\nConcipiet a child that is naked.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Full glad may we be,&#8211;and abide that day<br \/>\nThat lovely to see,&#8211;that all mights may.<br \/>\nLord, well for me,&#8211;for once and for aye,<br \/>\nMight I kneel on my knee&#8211;some word for to say<br \/>\nTo that child.<br \/>\nBut the angel said<br \/>\nIn a crib was he laid;<br \/>\nHe was poorly arrayed,<br \/>\nBoth meaner and mild.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Patriarchs that have been,&#8211;and prophets beforn,<br \/>\nThey desired to have seen&#8211;this child that is born.<br \/>\nThey are gone full clean,&#8211;that have they lorn.<br \/>\nWe shall see him, I ween,&#8211;e&#8217;er it be morn<br \/>\nBy token<br \/>\nWhen I see him and feel,<br \/>\nThen know I full weel<br \/>\nIt is true as steel<br \/>\nThat prophets have spoken.<br \/>\nTo so poor as we are, that he would appear,<br \/>\nFirst find, and declare by his messenger.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Go we now, let us fare: the place is us near.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> I am ready and yare:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"eager\" id=\"return-footnote-373-114\" href=\"#footnote-373-114\" aria-label=\"Footnote 114\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[114]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0go we in fear<br \/>\nTo that light!<br \/>\nLord! if thy wills be,<br \/>\nWe are lewdunlearn&#8217;d, rude\u00a0all three,<br \/>\nThou grant us of thy glee,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"happiness\" id=\"return-footnote-373-115\" href=\"#footnote-373-115\" aria-label=\"Footnote 115\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[115]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nTo comfort thy wight.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"stagedir\">[<i>The Shepherds arrive at Bethlehem.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, comely and clean; hail, young child!<br \/>\nHail, maker, as I mean, of a maiden so mild!<br \/>\nThou hast wared, I ween, off the warlock<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"demon, evil one\" id=\"return-footnote-373-116\" href=\"#footnote-373-116\" aria-label=\"Footnote 116\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[116]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0so wild,<br \/>\nThe false guiler of teen,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"worker of evil. The &quot;he&quot; in the next line refers to the Holy Babe again\" id=\"return-footnote-373-117\" href=\"#footnote-373-117\" aria-label=\"Footnote 117\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[117]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0now goes he beguiled.<br \/>\nLo, he merry is!<br \/>\nLo, he laughs, my sweeting,<br \/>\nA welcome meeting!<br \/>\nI have given my greeting<br \/>\nHave a bob of cherries?<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, sovereign saviour, for thou hast us sought!<br \/>\nHail freely, leaf and flow&#8217;r, that all thing has wrought!<br \/>\nHail full of favour, that made all of nought!<br \/>\nHail! I kneel and I cower. A bird have I brought<br \/>\nTo my bairn!<br \/>\nHail, little tiny mop,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"pate, little tiny-pate\" id=\"return-footnote-373-118\" href=\"#footnote-373-118\" aria-label=\"Footnote 118\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[118]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nOf our creed thou are crop!<br \/>\nI would drink in thy cup,<br \/>\nLittle day-starn.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"day-star\" id=\"return-footnote-373-119\" href=\"#footnote-373-119\" aria-label=\"Footnote 119\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[119]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Hail, darling dear, full of godheed!<br \/>\nI pray thee be near, when that I have need.<br \/>\nHail! sweet is thy cheer: my heart would bleed<br \/>\nTo see thee sit here in so poor weed.<br \/>\nWith no pennies.<br \/>\nHail! put forth thy dall!&#8211;<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"hand\" id=\"return-footnote-373-120\" href=\"#footnote-373-120\" aria-label=\"Footnote 120\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[120]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI bring thee but a ball<br \/>\nHave and play thee with all,<br \/>\nAnd go to the tennis.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mary.<\/i> The Father of Heaven, God omnipotent,<br \/>\nThat set all on levin,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"set all alight; gave light to all\" id=\"return-footnote-373-121\" href=\"#footnote-373-121\" aria-label=\"Footnote 121\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[121]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0his son has he sent.<br \/>\nMy name could he neven,<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"could he (i.e. the babe) tell, name\" id=\"return-footnote-373-122\" href=\"#footnote-373-122\" aria-label=\"Footnote 122\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[122]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and laught as he went.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"weened; i.e. laughed as if he knew all about it\" id=\"return-footnote-373-123\" href=\"#footnote-373-123\" aria-label=\"Footnote 123\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[123]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nI conceived him full even, through might, as God meant;<br \/>\nAnd new is he born.<br \/>\nHe keep you from woe:<br \/>\nI shall pray him so;<br \/>\nTell forth as ye go,<br \/>\nAnd mind on this morn.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> Farewell, lady, so fair to behold,<br \/>\nWith thy child on thy knee.<\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> But he lies full cold,<br \/>\nLord, well is me: now we go forth, behold!<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> Forsooth, already it seems to be told<br \/>\nFull oft.<\/p>\n<p><i>1st Shepherd.<\/i> What grace we have fun.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"found\" id=\"return-footnote-373-124\" href=\"#footnote-373-124\" aria-label=\"Footnote 124\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[124]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>2nd Shepherd.<\/i> Come forth, now are we won.<\/p>\n<p><i>3rd Shepherd.<\/i> To sing are we bun:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"bound\" id=\"return-footnote-373-125\" href=\"#footnote-373-125\" aria-label=\"Footnote 125\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[125]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nLet take on loft.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Let us sing it aloft, or aloud!\" id=\"return-footnote-373-126\" href=\"#footnote-373-126\" aria-label=\"Footnote 126\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[126]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-373\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Wakefield Second Shepherds&#039; Play. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: J.M. Dent &amp; Sons Ltd. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19481\/19481-h\/19481-h.htm#wakefield_shep2\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19481\/19481-h\/19481-h.htm#wakefield_shep2<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/pdm\">Public Domain: No Known Copyright<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section><hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-373-1\">numb of hand <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-2\">fast tied (to a lord, as a public-house to a brewer) <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-3\">husbandmen <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-4\">a painted sleeve <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-4\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 4\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-5\">bragging <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-5\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 5\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-6\">peacock <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-6\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 6\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-7\">forego <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-7\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 7\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-8\">Benedicite <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-8\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 8\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-9\">spiteful <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-9\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 9\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-10\">we silly wedded men endure much woe <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-10\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 10\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-11\">placed, bestead <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-11\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 11\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-12\">is riven asunder <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-12\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 12\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-13\">briar <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-13\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 13\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-14\">tarrying <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-14\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 14\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-15\">slithers, slides away <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-15\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 15\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-16\">more and more <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-16\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 16\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-17\">You are two who wit, or know, all\u00a0I will give my sheep <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-17\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 17\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-18\">field <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-18\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 18\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-19\">hind <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-19\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 19\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-20\">till such time as we have made it <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-20\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 20\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-21\">stint our wages <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-21\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 21\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-22\">argue <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-22\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 22\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-23\">a light bargain yields badly <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-23\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 23\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-24\">went <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-24\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 24\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-25\">to make mirth among us <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-25\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 25\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-26\">stars <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-26\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 26\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-27\">\"harnes\" in original, which may mean \"harness\" <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-27\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 27\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-28\">such (of such) <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-28\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 28\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-29\">I <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-29\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 29\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-30\">be thwacked, or flogged <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-30\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 30\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-31\">eye <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-31\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 31\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-32\">jest <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-32\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 32\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-33\">rumour (ill repute) <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-33\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 33\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-34\">hot <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-34\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 34\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-35\">needle--not a little bit <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-35\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 35\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-36\">brood, children <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-36\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 36\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-37\">worse <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-37\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 37\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-38\">early waked, or perhaps, wearied by watching <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-38\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 38\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-39\">over-walked <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-39\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 39\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-40\">at once <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-40\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 40\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-41\">Into thy hands I commend (them), Pontius Pilate <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-41\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 41\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-42\">few <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-42\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 42\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-43\">learn <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-43\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 43\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-44\">chare,--job, as in charwoman <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-44\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 44\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-45\">wicket <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-45\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 45\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-46\">toil <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-46\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 46\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-47\">flayed <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-47\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 47\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-48\">The devil of them give warning <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-48\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 48\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-49\">jest <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-49\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 49\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-50\">advisest, sayest so? <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-50\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 50\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-51\">company <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-51\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 51\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-52\">Benedicite <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-52\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 52\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-53\">mad <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-53\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 53\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-54\">dream <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-54\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 54\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-55\">sloth(?) <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-55\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 55\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-56\">bellies <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-56\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 56\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-57\">brains <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-57\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 57\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-58\">prosper <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-58\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 58\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-59\">where <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-59\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 59\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-60\">waning moon <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-60\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 60\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-61\">comes <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-61\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 61\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-62\">lie <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-62\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 62\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-63\">plays <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-63\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 63\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-64\">thereto <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-64\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 64\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-65\">Help! or Halloo! <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-65\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 65\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-66\">lost <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-66\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 66\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-67\">God forbid <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-67\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 67\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-68\">Horbery Shrubberies, near Wakefield <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-68\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 68\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-69\">die <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-69\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 69\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-70\">advise <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-70\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 70\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-71\">call <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-71\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 71\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-72\">\"take on,\" make game <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-72\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 72\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-73\">breathe <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-73\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 73\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-74\">nose (?) The \"so he\" is meant for a she <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-74\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 74\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-75\">enow, enough <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-75\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 75\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-76\">went <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-76\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 76\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-77\">went, were grazing  <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-77\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 77\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-78\">bothers us, makes us suspect <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-78\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 78\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-79\">suspicion <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-79\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 79\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-80\">swelter <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-80\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 80\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-81\">fared <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-81\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 81\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-82\">been in labour <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-82\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 82\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-83\">soft <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-83\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 83\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-84\">empty <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-84\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 84\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-85\">a boy <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-85\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 85\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-86\">a lie <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-86\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 86\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-87\">faith <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-87\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 87\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-88\">hubbub <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-88\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 88\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-89\">done <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-89\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 89\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-90\">day-star <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-90\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 90\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-91\">gem, something prankt out, or shown off, like a false gem <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-91\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 91\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-92\">scold <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-92\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 92\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-93\">hight, be called <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-93\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 93\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-94\">say <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-94\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 94\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-95\">bewitched <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-95\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 95\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-96\">be avenged, wreak vengeance <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-96\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 96\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-97\"><i>i.e.<\/i> for a changeling <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-97\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 97\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-98\">curse nor flout <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-98\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 98\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-99\">chide <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-99\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 99\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-100\">vex about it <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-100\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 100\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-101\">gracious <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-101\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 101\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-102\">lost <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-102\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 102\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-103\">destroy <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-103\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 103\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-104\">free, or divine, One <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-104\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 104\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-105\">voice <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-105\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 105\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-106\">name, relate <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-106\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 106\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-107\">lightning <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-107\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 107\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-108\">star <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-108\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 108\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-109\">three short notes to a long one <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-109\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 109\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-110\">shouted it out\u00a0it <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-110\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 110\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-111\">take <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-111\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 111\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-112\">delay <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-112\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 112\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-113\">can mind <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-113\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 113\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-114\">eager <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-114\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 114\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-115\">happiness <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-115\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 115\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-116\">demon, evil one <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-116\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 116\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-117\">worker of evil. The \"he\" in the next line refers to the Holy Babe again <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-117\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 117\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-118\">pate, little tiny-pate <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-118\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 118\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-119\">day-star <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-119\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 119\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-120\">hand <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-120\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 120\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-121\">set all alight; gave light to all <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-121\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 121\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-122\">could he (<i>i.e.<\/i> the babe) tell, name <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-122\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 122\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-123\">weened; <i>i.e.<\/i> laughed as if he knew all about it <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-123\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 123\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-124\">found <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-124\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 124\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-125\">bound <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-125\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 125\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-373-126\">Let us sing it aloft, or aloud! <a href=\"#return-footnote-373-126\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 126\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":277,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"pd\",\"description\":\"The Wakefield Second Shepherds\\' Play\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"J.M. 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