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PAQE

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TWELFTH Night, or KING AND QUEEN

Sr Distaff's Day, OR THE MORROW AFTER TWELFTH DAY

CEREMONY FOR CANDLEMAS EVE

CANDLEMAS EVE

CEREMONY ror CANDLEMAS DAY .

CANDLEMAS DAY .

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CHRISTMAS SONGS AND CAROLS OF THE TIME OF THE CIVIL

WARS, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE RESTORATION.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

(George Wither.) 91

CHRISTMAS DAY

(George Wither.) 96

HYMN TO THE NATIVITY .

(John Milton.) 97

HYMN OF THE NATIVITY, SUNG BY THE SHEPHERDS (Richard Crashau.) 105

Of Christ's BIRTI IN AN Ixx

(Jeremy Taylor.) 108

CAROL

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CHRISTMAS SONG

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CAROL

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The OLD CAP, or TIME's ALTERATION

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OLD CHRISTMAS RETURNED

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WASSAILING FRUIT TREES

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GOD REST You MERRY GENTLEMEN

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CAROL WITH LULLABY

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I Saw THREE SHIPS

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LABOUR'S REWARD

CHRISTMAS PAST AND PRESENT

WASSAILER'S SONG

CHRISTMAS IS A COMING

WINTER

DIVISION VI.

CHRISTMAS VERSES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME .

(Sir Walter Scott.) 142

THE WASSAIL

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CHRISTMAS MINSTRELSY

( William Wordsworth.) 144

Religions Carols:-

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

(Samuel T. Coleridge.) 147

CHRISTMAS CAROL

(Felicia Hemans.) 149

CHRISTMAS DAY

(Samuel Rickards.) 150

THE NATIVITY

(W. J. Blew.) 152

CHRISTMAS MORNING

( Edward Moxon.) 153

CIIRISTMAS TIME .

(John Clare.) 155

CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEIR

(Thomas Miller.) 159

CHRISTMAS TIDE

(Eliza Cook.) 164

THE MAHOGANY TREE

(11". M. Thackeray.) 166

CHRISTMAS IS COME

(Albert Smith.) 167

OLD CHRISTMAS

(John Bridgeman.) 168

Winter :-

A WRINKLED CRABBED MAN THEY PICTURE THEE (Robert Southey.) 170

DEAR BOY, THROW THAT ICICLE DOWN

(Robert Bloom field.) 170

THERE'S NOT A FLOWER UPOX THE HILL

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CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS : COURTYARD OF Anglo-NORMAN CASTLE
GROUP OF MINSTRELS
VIRGIN AND CHILD
BOAR HUNT
BRINGING IN THE BOAR's HEAD .
THE SECOND COURSE: DANCE OF FOOLS
HUNTING SCENE
DRINKING GROUP
HARVEST HOME IN THE OLDEN Time.

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BALL-ROOM IN OLD ENGLISH MANSION
GATHERING MISTLETOE
RYDAL MOUNT, WESTMORELAND : CHRISTMAS MINSTRELS
CHRISTMAS MORNING : GOING TO CHURCH
MILKMAIDS
UNDER THE MISTLETOE
OLD WINTER
GROUP OF DEER
RINGING CHURCH BELLS

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