ADDITIONAL PIECES

Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef.

All travellers, as they do pass on their way,

At gentlemen's halls are invited to stay,

Themselves to refresh, and their horses to rest,

Since that he must be Old Christmas's guest;

Nay, the poor shall not want, but have for relief,

Plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef.

CHRISTMAS CAROL

As Joseph was a-waukin'

He heard an angel sing,

"This night shall be the birthnight

Of Christ our heavenly King.

"His birth-bed shall be neither

In housen nor in hall,

Nor in the place of paradise,

But in the oxen stall.

"He neither shall be rockèd

In silver nor in gold,

But in the wooden manger

That lieth in the mould.

"He neither shall be washen

With white wine nor with red,

But with the fair spring water

That on you shall be shed.

"He neither shall be clothèd

In purple nor in pall,

But in the fair, white linen

That usen babies all."

As Joseph was a-waukin',

Thus did the angel sing,

And Mary's son at midnight

Was born to be our King.

Then be you glad, good people,

At this time of the year;

And light you up your candles,

For His star it shineth clear.

"IN EXCELSIS GLORIA"

When Christ was born of Mary free,

In Bethlehem, in that fair citie,

Angels sang there with mirth and glee,

In Excelsis Gloria!

Herdsmen beheld these angels bright,

To them appearing with great light,

Who said, "God's Son is born this night,"

In Excelsis Gloria!

This King is come to save mankind,

As in Scripture truths we find,

Therefore this song have we in mind,

In Excelsis Gloria!

Then, dear Lord, for Thy great grace,

Grant us the bliss to see Thy face,

That we may sing to Thy solace,

In Excelsis Gloria!

THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL

(Sung at Queen's College, Oxford.)

The boar's head in hand bear I,

Bedecked with bays and rosemary;

And I pray you, my masters, be merry,

Quot estis in convivio.

Caput apri defero

Reddens laudes domino

The boar's head, as I understand,

Is the rarest dish in all this land,

Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland

Let us servire cantico.

Caput apri defero

Reddens laudes domino

Our steward hath provided this

In honour of the King of bliss;

Which on this day to be served is

In Reginensi Atrio.

Caput apri defero

Reddens laudes domino

CHRISTMAS CAROL

Listen, lordings, unto me, a tale I will you tell;

Which, as on this night of glee, in David's town befell.

Joseph came from Nazareth with Mary, that sweet maid;

Weary were they nigh to death, and for a lodging prayed.

In the inn they found no room; a scanty bed they made;

Soon a babe, an angel pure, was in the manger laid.

Forth He came, as light through glass, He came to save us all.

In the stable, ox and ass before their Maker fall.

Shepherds lay afield that night to keep the silly sheep,

Hosts of angels in their sight came down from Heaven's high steep:—

Tidings! tidings unto you! to you a child is born,

Purer than the drops of dew, and brighter than the morn!

Onward then the angels sped, the shepherds onward went,—

God was in His manger bed; in worship low they bent.

In the morning see ye mind, my masters one and all,

At the altar Him to find, who lay within the stall.

Chorus.

Sing high, sing low,

Sing to and fro,

Go tell it out with speed,

Cry out and shout,

All round about,

That Christ is born indeed!

Pray whither sailed those ships all three

On Christmas day in the morning?

Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem