Excerpt from The Holy Night: Being a Masque to Be Performed by Young Children at Christmas-Tide When the curtain shall be drawn, the Stage appeareth so and so To the one side there may be the gable end of a little shed. This hath a door that shall open down its mid length when the time appointed is come. Above, on the gable, sitteth an angel; wherefore this framework needs be stout builded. To the one side and the other of the door Angels stand likewise. All these three have a face as of one that waiteth, thinking his own thoughts; neither are they observed of the Shepherds nor of the Beasts. I n'that side of the shed most near the front of the stage shall be a little window, and the Ox and the Ass look forth. Over against this shed a little mound riseth up and mayhap it is made of sand - and on this the cock is perched, who anon doth rake with his toes in the sand, anon he pecketh at the raven, which walketh sedate about the heap of sand, or resteth still with his head covered underneath his wing in the seemly fashion of his kind. But ere long he must walk again. Now mid-way betwixt this little shed and this mound, and in the front of the stage, the Shepherds lie on the ground, and their lamb with them. 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.