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  Speaker 1: Old English Christmas, while young and old, and grave and
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  Speaker 1: gay have all their merry modern way initialized of making
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  Speaker 1: Christmas mime. Come, let us see how full of glee
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  Speaker 1: the jolly monarch used to be all in the olden time.
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  Speaker 1: His fun and frolic, by your leave, were full as
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  Speaker 1: bright on Christmas Eve, as ever are they now. He
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  Speaker 1: used to have his bowl, I ween and quaff his
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  Speaker 1: toast of death to spleen beneath the kissing bow he used.
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  Speaker 1: But mercy on our rhyme, here is his majesty, sublime
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  Speaker 1: decorations by all the household known as jolly Christmas. And
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  Speaker 1: see see they claim him like a new mp in
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  Speaker 1: triumph to his throne. I. Thus it was the ancient
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  Speaker 1: way for every home on Christmas Day to have its
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  Speaker 1: proper king. They brewed his bowl, they reared his throne.
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  Speaker 1: They rigged a Christmas of their own, and made him
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  Speaker 1: dance and sing. And so they bore him hand in hand,
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  Speaker 1: the bacchus of their merry band, with cup and crown
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  Speaker 1: and bow, and made him drink and laugh. Ho ho,
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  Speaker 1: beneath the kissing mistletoe a mast. Even as we see
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  Speaker 1: him now, look out, look out beyond the door. The
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  Speaker 1: white snow driveth more and more. The moon rides through
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  Speaker 1: the cloud, But there are murmurs neath her light, And
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  Speaker 1: though it be a winter night, their mirth shall yet
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  Speaker 1: be loud. Look in, look in the sports begin Now
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  Speaker 1: listen to their merry Din what gleeful voices sing, their
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  Speaker 1: well dressed Christmas on his way arch president of all
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  Speaker 1: their play and in their homestead. King, maiden and yeomen
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  Speaker 1: ripe for kisses. Together bear this King of blisses with
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  Speaker 1: mistletoe in hand. The wassail bowl is born before the
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  Speaker 1: huge yule log is on the floor. The blaze is
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  Speaker 1: near at hand. But ere he reach his throne, I
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  Speaker 1: vow well placed and velvet cushioned. Now they make him
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  Speaker 1: pause beneath the bow, with flagon full in hand. There
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  Speaker 1: must he pledge a cup of joy to chubby little
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  Speaker 1: cupid boy, love life and youth without alloy, the pet
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  Speaker 1: of all their hand, fair lovely women round him, group
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  Speaker 1: and reverend age that still can stoop to mix in
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  Speaker 1: childhood's mirth and lusty boys who proudly bear the bowl
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  Speaker 1: in which he drowns his care. That mighty Christmas river
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  Speaker 1: there enough to drown the earth. Now let him on
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  Speaker 1: his throne alight. He's brought us all a jovial night
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  Speaker 1: of old. It was a pleasant sight to see him
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  Speaker 1: brisk and mellow. But whether in the days we've sung
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  Speaker 1: or modern moments, old or young, Christmas is owned by
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  Speaker 1: every tongue to be a rare old fellow.