368 THE GERMAN PASSION-PLA Y 



God, ijs, Item to the devyll and to Judas, xviiij rt , Itm 

 to Pilatt is wyffe, iis, etc. Herod was paid 3s. 4d., 

 Pilate 4s., the Holy Ghost Is. 4d., Peter and Malchus 

 Is. 4d., the knights 2s., and the minstrel Is. 2d. 



Even when the play was not processional in the 

 sense in which we have used that word, the actors usually 

 marched to the stage in procession. Thus the first 

 group of the Luzern procession consisted of a shield- 

 bearer, an ensign, the Proclamator, St. Gregory, God the 

 Father, Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and the angel Uriel. 

 On the second day another group consisted of the 

 executioner Achas, Amalech, Jesmas and Dismas (the 

 two thieves 1 ), God the Father, Longinus, Dionysius 

 Areopagita, and the archangel Eaphael. In the Alsfelder 

 Processio Ludi we find included, Satan with a tree, 2 the 

 devil Natyr with a mirror (see p. 362), the Gock, the 

 Synagogue, two Jews carrying a Talmud, the Ecclesia, 

 and, concluding a very long list, four damned souls with 

 Death. 3 



After the day's performance the Proclamator would 

 not unusually dismiss the assembly either to church or 

 to supper : 



Nun mag wol fraue und auch man 

 frolich von dem marck heim gan 

 und miigen essen mosanczen und fladen 

 und sich erhollen ires schaden. 4 



1 Jesmas and Dismas were highwaymen who attacked the Holy Family on 

 the flight into Egypt. At Mary's entreaties, Dismas spared their lives, which 

 much angered Jesmas. Mary gave Dismas her girdle as a token of his ultimate 

 redemption (see T, p. 385). 



2 In the peasant- plays of Adam and Eve a decorated tree, representing the 

 tree of knowledge, was carried about (see E, p. 112). 



3 See the processional lists in B, vol. ii. pp. 121, 125 ; C, p. 257. 



4 See F, p. 325 ; C, p. 91 ; B, vol. ii. p. 252. In the latter we read : 

 ' Gat man ... in der ordnung bis in die cappel." 



