The Strassburg, Bilsen, and Mans plays have not the _Rachel_, although the first two have the scene in which the _nuntius_ informs Herod that the _Magi_ have deceived him. A further stage is reached when, as at Freising and at Fleury, the _Pastores_, _Stella_ and _Rachel_ all coalesce in a single, and by this time considerable, drama. The Freising texts, of which there are two, are rather puzzling[184]. The first closely resembles the plays of the group just described. It begins with a short _Pastores_, comprising the angelic tidings only. Then the scenes between the _Magi_ and Herod are treated at great length. The meeting of the _Magi_ and the shepherds is followed by the oblation, the angelic warning, and the return of the messenger to Herod. In the second Freising text, which is almost wholly metrical, the _Pastores_ is complete. It is followed by a quite new scene, the dream of Joseph and his flight into Egypt. Then come successively the scene of fury at court, the massacre, the _planctus_ and consolation of Rachel. Clearly this second text, as it stands, is incomplete. The _Magi_ are omitted, and the whole of the latter part of the play is consequently rendered meaningless. But it is the _Magi_ who are alone treated fully in the first Freising text. I suggest, therefore, that the second text is intended to supplement and not to replace the first. It really comprises two fragments: one a revision of the _Pastores_, the other a revision of the closing scene and an expansion of it by a _Rachel_. As to the Fleury version there can be no doubt whatever[185]. The matter is, indeed, arranged in two plays, a _Herodes_ and an _Interfectio Puerorum_, each ending with a _Te Deum_; and the performance may possibly have extended over two days. But the style is the same throughout and the episodes form one continuous action. It is impossible to regard the _Interfectio Puerorum_ as a separate piece from the _Herodes_, acted a week earlier on the feast of the Innocents; for into it, after the first entry of the children with their lamb, _gaudentes per monasterium_, come the flight into Egypt, the return of the _nuntius_, and the wrath of Herod, which, of course, presuppose the _Magi_ scenes. Another new incident is added at the end of the Fleury play. Herod is deposed and Archelaus set up; the Holy Family return from Egypt, and settle in the parts of Galilee[186].