Excerpt from Bethlehem: A Nativity Play All the songs of the 'nativity Play, ' to gether With the whole of the 'pageant of Our Lady' and the 'christmas Songs, ' Which are here printed, were designed to be set to music by my friend, Mr. Joseph Moorat. Standing thus separate from their context, their appeal to the reader is necessarily incomplete. I can only hope that they precede by a very short time the publication of the music to Which from their first inception they were dedicated in friendship, in admiration and in confidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.