 | Thomas Tusser - 1812 - 430 σελίδες
...such old things *. All Saints do lay for pork and souse, For sprats and spurlings for their house. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes, but once a-year. Though some then do, as do they would, Let thrifty do, as do they should. For causes good,... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 432 σελίδες
...Martin, Nov. I. THE All Saints § do lay for pork and souse,! For sprats and spurlings t for their house. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes, but once a year. Though some then do, as do they would, Let thrifty do, as do they should. For causes good, so many... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1831 - 1038 σελίδες
...and such old things. All Saints do lay for pork and souse, For sprats and spurlings for their house. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes, but once a-year. Though some then do, as do they would, Let thrifty do, as do they should. For causes good,... | |
 | 1867 - 396 σελίδες
...poem contains some lines which have found currency in modern times as rhythmical proverbs, such as, "At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." And— " The stone that is rolling can gather no moss ; For master and servant oft changing is loss."... | |
 | Thomas Tusser - 1848 - 202 σελίδες
...and such old things. All Saints do lay for pork and souse, For sprats and spurlings for their house. At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Though some then do, as do they would, Let thrifty do, as do they should. For causes good, so many... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. CHAPTER xii. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. CHAPTER xxxviii. Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man. ' CHAPTER xlvi. 'Tis merry in hall,... | |
 | 1889 - 1060 σελίδες
...TIME. Christmas. TT was old Thomas Tusser, away back in fifteen hunA dred and something, who sang : At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. The return of this anniversary is no longer a matter of indifference in any department of thought or... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 σελίδες
...wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good.* Moral Reflections on the Wind. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Fice Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Chap, xii, Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man. Chap,... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 σελίδες
...And a^gpls sang — Ampn CHRISTMAS IN A YORKSHIRE YEOMAN'S HOUSE THIRTY YEARS AGO. BY A FORESTEB. " At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." TI-SMZK (1520— IfiSO). " England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 σελίδες
...Sh. Hen. VIn. I. 1. CHBISTIAN. A Christian is the highest style of man. Young, NT iv. 788. CEBISTMAS. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Tuner, 500 pointt, 12. Lo ! now is come our joyful'st feast ! Let every man bo jolly. Each room with... | |
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At Christmas play, and make good cheer. For Christmas comes but once a year. 
