So handsome and mild,
And that's the truth, I assure you.
Mary is uneasy: she looks at the child, so weak and tender, and is distressed at having nothing to wrap him in,
For the night is cold.
JOSEPH.
I shall light this taper.
He then lights the lamp.
Where shall we put him? In the manger here ...
No better place in all the inn.
This was the end of the first act. The spectators expressed the interest they felt in the drama, at once so serious and so holy; and even the Cardinals De Grammont and De Foix found nothing in it contrary to the doctrines of the Church. As that was a time when people were very fond of diversion, joke and jest followed. Several comic characters appeared in the interlude, especially a poor monk, who was the soul of the farce.[81] This was not Margaret's composition: even the catholics did not charge her with it. The jesters retired at last, and the drama proceeded.