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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 

 quae ad omcium pertinent sacerdotum." 



Pol. 6. The Prologue to St. Mark, beginning " Marcus 

 Evangelista Dei." 



Fol. 6 b. 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 hjec 

 sunt Hebraice Appellus, Amerus, Damascus. Grace, Galgalat, Magalath, 



Sarachim. Latine, Balthasar, Jaspar, Melchior." Hist. Evang. cap. viii. 



" Quae sane commenta sunt hominis Hebraice et Greece seque imperiti. Nomi- 

 nant alii Atorem, Satorem, Paratoram : ludibria omnia, et minime ante duo- 

 .decimum saeculum procusae fabellse."— Calmet, Commentar. torn. 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 (lb. p. 323); Balthasar, Jan. 11 (Ibid. p. 664). 



