. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . mbols of Christmas the young men do best that they can, To drive the cold winter away. When white bearded frost hath threatened hisworst. And fallen from branch and briar,Then time away calls, from husbandry halls, And from the good countrymans fire,Together to go, to plow and to sow, To get us both food and thus with content the time we have spent. To drive the cold winter away. SONGS AND BALLADS. 221 lL*eEn&os> Go, Little Booke, to suttle world, i IAnd shew thy simple face, \
. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . mbols of Christmas the young men do best that they can, To drive the cold winter away. When white bearded frost hath threatened hisworst. And fallen from branch and briar,Then time away calls, from husbandry halls, And from the good countrymans fire,Together to go, to plow and to sow, To get us both food and thus with content the time we have spent. To drive the cold winter away. SONGS AND BALLADS. 221 lL*eEn&os> Go, Little Booke, to suttle world, i IAnd shew thy simple face, \ And forward passe, and do not turne \ Agayne to my disgrace. \ Tor thou shalt bring to peoples eares ) But truth, that needes not blush; \ And though perchance thou getst rebuke, \ Care not for that a rush:For evill tongues do itch so sore, ] They must be rubbing still j Against the teeth, that should hold fast | The clapper of the those men that likes thee not, To lay thee downe againe,Till some sweete nappe and harmlesse sleepe Hath settled troubled brayne. -m—^- 19. ^4 I^^vt^iW >f#0?£*^ >^\>^;^ atitiittonal ^ntm anD Elustrations
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