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    Three shepherds find a mysterious baby in the fields that appears to have cloven hooves instead of feet. They debate what to do with the strange child, with one shepherd wanting to kiss it and another wanting to burn the "bawde" woman who bore it, believing the child is somehow devilish or unnatural. The third shepherd claims he is the father and the woman nearby is the mother, trying to take the child away from the suspicious shepherds.

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    Three shepherds find a mysterious baby in the fields that appears to have cloven hooves instead of feet. They debate what to do with the strange child, with one shepherd wanting to kiss it and another wanting to burn the "bawde" woman who bore it, believing the child is somehow devilish or unnatural. The third shepherd claims he is the father and the woman nearby is the mother, trying to take the child away from the suspicious shepherds.

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    Three shepherds find a mysterious baby in the fields that appears to have cloven hooves instead of feet. They debate what to do with the strange child, with one shepherd wanting to kiss it and another wanting to burn the "bawde" woman who bore it, believing the child is somehow devilish or unnatural. The third shepherd claims he is the father and the woman nearby is the mother, trying to take the child away from the suspicious shepherds.

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    Excerpt from The Second Shepherds Play Medieval Mystery: Wakefield Cycle Late Middle English

    iijus pastor The child will it not grefe: that lytyll day starne Mak with youre leyfe: let me gyf youre barne ----------Bot vj pence Mak Nay do way he slepys iijus pastor Me thynk he pepys Mak When he wakyns he wepys -----I pray you go hence iijus pastor Gyf me lefe hym to kys: and lyft vp the clowtt What the dewill is this: he has a long snowte primus pastor He is merkyd amys: we wate ill abowte ijus pastor Ill spon weft Iwys: ay commys foull owte

    ----------Ay so He is lyke to oure shepe iijus pastor How gyb may I pepe primus pastor I trow kynde will crepe ----------Where it may not go ijus pastor This was a qwantt gawde: and a far cast It was a hee frawde: iijus pastor yee syrs wast Lett bren this bawde: and bynd hir fast A fals skawde: hang at the last ----------So shall thou Wyll ye se how thay swedyll His foure feytt in the medyll Sagh I neuer in a credyll ----------A hornyd lad or now Mak Peasse byd I what : Lett be youre fare I am he that hym gatt : and yond woman hym bare

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