...merry boys, And drink to your heart's desiring. "With the hut year's brand Light the new block, and The Christmas log to the firing; While my good dame she Bids ye all be free, For good success in his spending, On your psaltries play, That sweet lack may Come...

...luck. Herrick mentions it in one of his songs:— _ Come, bring with a noise, My merrie, merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring. The Yule clog is still burnt in many farmhouses...

...and ebullitions of joy. In Herrick's ' Hespéridos ' one of the 'Ceremonies for Christmasse' is — Come bring, with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The...Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts' desiring. I think it is worthy of note that "dun," or dark...

...sense the word occurs in the following song : " Come, bring with a noise, My merrie, merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing : While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring." Herrick. So also in the following passage : Shep....

...luck. Herrick mentions it in one of his songs:— Come, bring with a noise, My metric, merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring. The Ynle clog is still burnt in many farmhouses...

...allusion to it in the writings of our earlier poets. ra ',. . .' ,' . CEREMONY FOR CHRISTMAS EVE. OME bring with a noise, My merry merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she I5ids ye all be free, '&%" And drink to your heart's desiring. With the last year's brand* Light the....

...the sound of music. Herrick's direction is :— " Come, bring with a noise, My merrie, merrie boys, I The Christmas log to the firing; While my good dame...all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring." In Drake's " Winter Nights " mention is made of the Yule Clog, as lying, " in ponderous majesty, on...

...for a gift, A pig to the priest for a roaster, Shall hear his clerk say, b CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS. Come, bring with a noise, My merry merry boys, The...Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. With the last year's brand Light the new block,...

...that we find iillusion to it in the writings of our earlier poets. CEREMONY FOR CHRISTMAS EVE. OME bring with a noise, My merry merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. With the last year's brand Light the new block,...

...performances, was most likely written for the purpose of being sung during the kindling of the Yule clog : — Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The...Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. \fith the last war's brand Light the new block,...