Gentle Tree, you say kindly.
SHEPHERD
(To Mary, with gladness)
Here Herod can never harm Him, Lady dear.
TREE
Who is Herod, that he would harm a little child?
JOSEPH
Herod is lord of the world—there, in the land we have fled from.
Mighty is he, yet afraid: for out of the east
Three Wise Men followed a star to this poor manger,