CONTENTS,

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TWELFTH Night, or KING AND QUEEN

ST DISTAFF's Day, OR THE MORROW AFTER TWELFTH DAY

CEREMONY FOR CANDLEMAS Eve

CANDLEMAS EVE.

CEREMONY FOR CANDLEMAS DAY

CANDLEMAS Day .

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DIVISION IV.

CHRISTMAS SONGS AND CAROLS OF THE TIME OF THE CIVIL

WARS, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE RESTORATION.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

(George Wither.) 91

CHRISTMAS DAY

(George Jither.) 96

IIYMN TO THE NATIVITY .

(John Milton.) 97

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

OF CHRIST'S BIRTI IN AN Inx

(Jeremy Taylor.) 108

CAROL

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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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GIRLS WITH WASSAIL BOWL
FORESTER WITH HOLLY Bougi

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BRINGING IN THE CHRISTMAS Log
CAROL SINGERS BEFORE CHARLES I. AT WHITEHALL
Old English Manor House: THE WASSAIL
FOTHERING HORSES

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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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Christmas with the poets.