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Three were the Druids without gloom; 
Triple were their gifts in noble fashion ; 
Three garments were upon each man of them; 
From three worlds they came without debility. 
Mary, Joseph, and noble Simeon, 
Of the tribe of Judah of the noble kings, 
Are in the house in which every hand is a lighted torch, 
All together with the Trinity. 
May we do thy will, O King, 
And desire it with all our heart: 
Thou art gracious to relieve us in our distress, 
Since the day thou wast adored by Aurelius. 
At the foot of same page are two notes, the former pur- 
porting to be taken from St. Gregory; the latter from St. 
Jerom, in these words: ‘‘Augeant sacerdotes scientiam magis 
quam divitias, et non erubescant discere a laicis, qui noverint 
que ad officium pertinent sacerdotum.” 
Fol. 6. The Prologue to St. Mark, beginning “ Marcus 
Evangelista Dei.” 
Fol. 6 6. The Prologue to St. Luke, beginning “ Lucas 
Syrus natione.” 
At the extreme top of fol. 7 a the following quatrain oc- 
curs, written in a very minute hand, and apparently as an ex- 
ercise of the pen, or a burst of the fancy: 
lath interpretatur nuncius, Galgalath devotus, Saracin gratia.”—Concord. 
Evang., lib. i. p. 47. (1535.) 
Petrus Comestor, A. D. 1170, writes thus: ‘‘ Nomina iii. Magorum hee 
sunt Hebraice Appellus, Amerus, Damascus. Grece, Galgalat, Magalath, 
Sarachim. Jatine, Balthasar, Jaspar, Melchior.”.— Hist. Evang. cap. viii. 
** Que sane commenta sunt hominis Hebraice et Greece zeque imperiti. Nomi- 
nant alii Atorem, Satorem, Paratoram: ludibria omnia, et minime ante duo- 
,decimum szeculum procusz fabellze.”—Calmet, Commentar. tom. vii. p. 65. 
(Aug. Vindel. 1735.) Casaubon, Exercitat. p. 136. (Francof. 1615.) In the 
Calendar they appear in this order: Gaspar, Jan. 1 (Act. SS. Jan. i. p. 8); 
Melchior, Jan. 6 (Ib. p. 323); Balthasar, Jan. 11 (Ibid. p. 664). 
