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branch of all was down at Mary's knee, and she could freely help 

 herself. 



' ! eat your cherries. Mary, 

 ! eat your cherries now ; 

 ! eat your cherries^ Mary, 

 That grow upon the bough.' 



The verses may be seen in Hone's Ancient Mysteries De- 

 scribed, pp. 93-99. Reference may be made to some rariant 

 of this legend in Annibale Caracci's Vierge au Cerises^ where 

 Joseph presents the cherries. In a Holy Family by Titian S. 

 John has his lap filled with the fruit, and other masters have 

 made angels the bearers of it (see Mrs. Jamieson's Legends of 

 the Madonna, p. 258)." Gr. 



Scober — ?from Sho^ Dan. and Sw., a shoe. 



Stockber — '^ stoc, A.-S., stock, stem, trunk, block, stick, or side 

 — like stoke, a place. 



Wyber— HUl ? 



Apropos of ler may be quoted the following from Cleasby : — 



^^ Bar, boer, or ht/r. In Iceland, people say beer; in Norway, 

 bo; in Sw.ed. and Den., bi/, the root word being bua, bii. 1, a 

 town or village. 2, farm, landed estate. 



Bu (Hel. bu = domicilium ; 0. H. G. bii, Mod. Grer. bau = 

 tillage, cultivation. Hel. also uses beo or beu =: seges, also Teut. 

 bouwt, messis. Bu is an apocopate form quasi bug or buffff. ' The 

 root remains unaltered in the branch to which Icel. bt/gg, byggja, 

 and other words belong) ^ a house. Bit and boe {byr) are twins 

 from the same root (bua) ; bar is the house, bu the household, 

 and the Gr. otKos embraces both. See By. 



Bua, to live, abide, dwell, Gr. olkclv, Lat. habitare." Cleasby. 



" Ber, I think, may sometimes be a form of burh, an earth- 

 work, etc." E. G. Berry is at times, see below. 



Beret. 



Icel. ber, gen. pi. berja, a berry, Cleasby; Suio-Goth. bar, 

 Moes-Goth. basj'a, Sw. bar, Dan. bar, Ger. beere, Al. peri, A.-S. 

 berie, berige, Bosworth {berga, berie, Lye) ; a berry, grape ; Dut. 



