 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  Scenes of the Olden Time - Page 105by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...for that purpose, as we find it recorded by H. rrick : " Come bring with a noise, My nierrie, merric boys, The Christmas log to the firing; While my good...desiring. With the last year's brand Light the new Mock, and For good success in his spending, On your psalteries piny That sweet luck may Come while... | |
 | 1856 - 388 pages
...me." Thereupon he began to sing at the top of hie voice— " Come bring with a noise, My merry merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good...all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring." " Good Heavens Г I exclaimed, almost dropping the great lump of gum tree, as a horrid thought came... | |
 | Children's plays - 1900 - 262 pages
...stand and hurrah. Ladies wave handkerchiefs. Log brought in. 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 health's desiring. LADY G. Let us raise our voices in the grand old carol, " From Far Away." SIR T.... | |
 | Amusements - 1900 - 252 pages
...Yule-tide joy. [All stand and hurrah. Ladies wave handkerchiefs. Log brought in. Come, bring with a noise, The Christmas log to the firing, While my good dame she Bids ye all be free And drink to your health's desiring. LADY G. Let us raise our voices in the grand old carol, " From Far Away." SIR T.... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
..." ' Ceremonies for Ckristtnass*. " Come bring, with a noise, My merry, merrie boys, The Christmass Log to the firing ; While my good Dame she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring. " With the last year's Brand Light the new Block,* and, For good successe in his spending,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1900 - 170 pages
...: if it went out, it was considered a sign of ill luck. Herrick mentions it in one of his songs : " Come bring with a noise, My merrie, merrie boys, The Christmas Log to the firing ; Whilst my good dame she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring." The yule clog is... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 218 pages
...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,...ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. The Yule clog is still burnt in many farmhouses and kitchens in England, particularly in the north,... | |
 | Sophie May - Boys - 1901 - 222 pages
...and Mrs. Parlin, and Love, and Willy all struck up, — " 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." The "good dame," I suppose, was Mrs. Parlin ; and she gave them to drink, it is... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - Country life - 1902 - 164 pages
...was something to be done with the English peasantry after all: "Come bring, with a noise, My merry, merrie boys, The Christmas Log to the firing; While...ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. ..." You may be sure the noise was not lacking, and when the lads had dragged the log on to the hearth,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - Country life - 1902 - 166 pages
...something to be done with the English peasantry after all: "Come bring, with a noise, My merry, metric boys, The Christmas Log to the firing; While my good...ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. ..." You may be sure the noise was not lacking, and when the lads had dragged the log on to the hearth,... | |
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