FOOTNOTES
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Rhys, Ernest
201. eager.
202. unlearn'd, rude.
203. happiness.
204. demon, evil one.
205. worker of evil. The "he" in the next line refers to the Holy Babe again.
206. pate, little tiny-pate
207. day-star.
208. hand.
209. set all alight; gave light to all.
210. could he (i.e. the babe) tell, name.
211. weened; i.e. laughed as if he knew all about it.
212. found.
213. bound.
214. Let us sing it aloft, or aloud!
215. "Behold, a Virgin shall conceive!"
216. glad.
217. for ever and ever.
218. deceits, darknesses.
219. commit.
220. physician, healer.
221. ruined.
222. equal or like.
223. messenger.
224. eyes.
225. wend, journey.
226. stay.
227. hill.
228. gust.
229. wold.
230. noble.
231. win.
232. News, news!
233. marvels.
234. descent, lineage.
235. give advice.
236. boldly, openly.
237. to.
238. "The devil run away with you!" The whole of this Herald's speech is in corrupt French, of which only the last speech, evidently a comic "aside," is retained.
239. He that reigns, King in Judea and Israel.
240. strokes, loud blows.