Loose her, and let her rise.

(One of the women takes up the dirge.)

Hush, O hush thee, Magdalena!

Something I would ask the child;

Sooner, haply, than her mother,

She will give me answer mild.

At her head the wailing mother

Sobs and shrieks in grief so wild.

VOCERO ON THE DEATH OF CÆSARIO AND CAPPATO.[I]

Jesus, Joseph, and Marie,