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Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas. Christmas has come. Let's eat and drink. This is
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  Speaker 1: no time to sit and think. Farewell, to study books
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  Speaker 1: and pen and welcome to all kinds of men. Let
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  Speaker 1: all men now get rid of care, and what one has,
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  Speaker 1: let others share. Then tis the same, no matter which
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  Speaker 1: of us is poor or which is rich. Let each
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  Speaker 1: man have enough this day, since those that can are
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  Speaker 1: glad to pay. There's nothing now too rich or good
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  Speaker 1: for poor men, not the king's own food. Now like
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  Speaker 1: a singing bird, my feet touch earth, and I must
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  Speaker 1: drink and eat. Welcome to all men. I'll not care
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  Speaker 1: what any of my fellows wear. Will not let cloth
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  Speaker 1: divide our souls. They'll swim stark naked in the bowls. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: poor beggar, I'll not see that hand of yours dislodge
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  Speaker 1: a flea while you sit at my side and beg
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  Speaker 1: or right foot scratching your left leg. Farewell, restraint. We
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  Speaker 1: will not now measure the ale our brains allow, but
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  Speaker 1: drink as much as we can hold. Will count no
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  Speaker 1: change when we spend gold. This is no time to save,
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  Speaker 1: but spend to give for nothing, not to lend. Let
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  Speaker 1: foes make friends, let them forget the mischief, making dead
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  Speaker 1: that fret the living with complaint like this, he wronged
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  Speaker 1: us once, hate him and his Christmas has come. Let
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  Speaker 1: every man eat, drink, be merry all he can. Ale's
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  Speaker 1: my best mark. But if port wine or whiskey's yours,
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  Speaker 1: let let it be mine. No matter what lies in
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  Speaker 1: the bowls, we'll make it rich with our own souls.
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  Speaker 1: Farewell to study, books and pen, and welcome to all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of men.