oels francais"# (Niort, 1905), Gastoue, 57 f.; #G.
Gregory Smith, "The Transition Period"# (Edinburgh and London, 1900),
217.

2. Gregory Smith, 217.

3. #H. Lemeignen, "Vieux Noels composes en l'honneur de la Naissance de
Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ"# (Nantes, 1876), iii. 2 f.

4. _Ibid._ i. 10, 11.

5. _Ibid._ ii. 93, 95.

6. Herve, 46.

7. Lemeignen, i. 55. |366|

8. Lemeignen, i. 29.

9. #"Les Vieux Noels,"# in #"Nouvelle Bibliotheque Populaire"#
(published by Henri Gautier, 55 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris).

10. Lemeignen, i. 93.

11. #H. J. L. J. Masse, "A Book Of Old Carols"# (London, 1910), i. 21.

12. Herve, 86.

13. Lemeignen, i. 71.

14. "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (Historical Edition), 79. Translation is
No. 58 in Ordinary Edition.

15. Herve, 132.

16. A great number of these _villancicos_ and _romances_ may be found in
#Justo de Sancha, "Romancero y Cancionero Sagrados"# (Madrid,
1855, vol. 35 of Rivadeneyra's Library of Spanish Authors), and there
are some good examples in #J. N. Boehl de Faber, "Rimas Antiguas
Castellanas"# (Hamburg, 1823).

17. Boehl de Faber, ii. 36.

18. #F. Caballero, "Elia y La Noche de Navidad"# (Leipsic, 1864), 210.

19. #A. de Gubernatis, "Storia Comparata degli Usi Natalizi"# (Milan,
1878), 90.

20. These three verses are taken from #Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco's#
charming translation of the poem, in her #"Essays in the Study of
Folk-Songs"# (London, 1886), 304 f.

21. Martinengo, "Folk-Songs," 302 f.

22. Latin text in Tille, "D. W.," 311; Italian game in De Gubernatis, 93.

23. Herve, 115 f.

24. #W. Hone, "The Ancient Mysteries Described"# (London, 1823), 103.

25. _Ibid._ 103.

26. See Note 11.

27. #D. Hyde, "Religious Songs of Connacht"# (London, 1906), ii. 225 f.

28. #"The Vineyard"# (London), Dec., 1910, 144.

29. "Deutsches Weihnachtsbuch," 120 f.

30. "A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs," 49 f. (spelling
here modernized); Rickert, 82 f.

31. "Deutsches Weihnachtsbuch," 123, and most German Protestant
hymnbooks.

32. Translation by Miles Coverdale, in Rickert, 192 f.

33. No. 5 in #Paulus Gerhardt, "Geistliche Lieder,"# ed. by P.
Wackernagel and W. Tuempel (9th Edition, Guetersloh, 1907).

34. Translation by #C. Winkworth# in #"Lyra Germanica"# (New Edition,
London, 1869), ii. 13 f.

35. "Deutsches Weihnachtsbuch," 128 f.

36. Trans