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202 {| cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 Of all our store a bounteous freight. In frame of rushes neatly dight. For Christ is given to us outright. Have milk new-drawn and creamy white. My bird, to please her, an it might. For Christ is given to us outright. Shall warm them in their wintry plight. The Child shall hear it with delight. For Christ is given to us outright. For I the best know wrong from right. For Christ is given to us outright.
 * colspan=2 |Sophronius and Philitine:
 * To their poor household let us bring
 * To their poor household let us bring
 * To their poor household let us bring
 * Dorothy:
 * This cheese shall be my plenishing,
 * This cheese shall be my plenishing,
 * Chorus:
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Christilla:
 * And I for Mary's nourishing
 * And I for Mary's nourishing
 * Philitine:
 * I 'll give my cage: therein shall sing
 * I 'll give my cage: therein shall sing
 * Chorus:
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Elpison:
 * These faggots of my gathering
 * These faggots of my gathering
 * Nephelé:
 * My flute shall be my offering;
 * My flute shall be my offering;
 * Chorus:
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Sophronius:
 * I'll run upon their heralding,
 * I'll run upon their heralding,
 * Philitine:
 * His face I'll kiss, in worshipping.
 * Christilla:
 * Ah no, the heel's too holy, quite.
 * Chorus:
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Chorus:
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * Sing Nowell, let the Nowell ring,
 * }

These charming comedies were acted at Nérac, with other farces less innocent and pretty. "Pour nous divertir, nous faisons moineries et farces," writes Margaret; and these monkeries, of which the "Inquisitor" alone remains, were, we may well believe, conceived in the spirit of Marot's Frère Lubin. They, and her patronage of Lutheran refugees, brought Margaret into such disrepute with the Catholic party that an attempt was made to poison her at her own table; and one day