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Speaker 1: Old Christmas returned. All you that to feasting and mirth

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are inclined, Come, here's good news for to pleasure your mind.

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Old Christmas is come for to keep open house. He

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scorns to be guilty of starving a mouse. Then come boys,

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and welcome for diet the chief plum pudding, goose capon,

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minced pies and roast beef. A long time together he

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hath been forgot. They scarce could afford for to hang

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on the pot. Such miserly sneaking in England hath been

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as by our forefathers, ne'er used to be seen. But

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now he's returned. You shall have, in brief plum pudding,

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goose capon, minced pies and roast beef. The times where

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ne'er good sense Old Christmas was fled, and all hospitality

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hath been so dead. No mirth at our festivals late

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did appear. They scarcely would part with a cup of March.

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But now you shall have, for the ease of your grief,

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plum pudding, goose capon, minced pies and roast beef. The

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butler and baker, they now may be glad the times

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they are mended, though they have been bad the brewer,

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he likewise may be of good cheer. He shall have

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good trading for ale and strong beer. All trade shall

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be jolly and have for relief plum pudding, goose capon,

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minced pies and roast beef. The holly and ivy about

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the walls wind and show that we ought to our

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neighbors be kind, inviting each other for pastime and sport.

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And where we best fare, there we most do resort.

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We fail not for victuals, and that of the chief

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plum pudding, goose capon, minced pies and roast beef. The

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cook shall be busied by day and by night, and

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roasting and boiling for taste and delight their senses, and

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liquor that's nappy they'll steep. Though they be afforded to

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have little sleep, they still are employed for to dress

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us in brief plum putting goose capon, minced pies and

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roast beef. Although the cold weather doth hunger provoke, tis

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a comfort to see how the chimneys do smoke. Provision

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is making for beer, ale and wine. For all that

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are willing or ready to dine. Then haste to the

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kitchen for diet the chief plum pudding, goose capon, minced

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pies and roast beef. All travelers, as they do pass

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on their way at gentlemen's halls, are invited to stay

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themselves to refresh, and their horses to rest, Since that

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he must the old Christmas guest. Nay, the poor shall

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not want, but have for relief plum putting goose capon,

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minced pies and roast beef. Now mack Beggar Hall, it

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no more shall stand empty, but all shall be furnished

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with freedom and plenty. The hoarding old misers, who used

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to preserve the gold in their coffers and see the

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poor starve, must now spread their tables and give them

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in brief plum putting goose capon, minced pies and roast beef.

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The court and the city and country are glad. Old

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Christmases come to cheer up the sad. Broad pieces and

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guineas about now shall fly and hundreds be losers by

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cogging a die, whilst others are feasting with diet the

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chief plum putting goose capon, minced pies and roast beef.

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Those that have no coin at the cards for to play,

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may sit by the fire, and pass time away, and

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drink of their moisture contented and free. My honor, good fellow,

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come here is to thee, And when they are hungry,

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full to their relief plum pudding, goose capon, mince pies

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and roast beef. Young gallants and ladies shall foot it

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along each room in the house, to the music shall throng,

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whilst jolly carouses about. They shall pass in each country

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Swain trip about with his lass. Meantime goes the caterer

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to fetch in the chief plum pudding, goose capon, minced pies,

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and roast beef. The cooks and the scullion who toil

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in their frocks, their hopes do depend upon their Christmas box.

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There are very few that do live on the earth

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but enjoy it this time, either profit or mirth. Yea

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those that are charged to find all relief plum pudding,

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goose capon, minced pies, and roast beef. Then well may

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we welcome Old Christmas to town, who brings us good

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cheer and good liquor, so brown to pass the cold

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winter away with delight. We feast it all day, and

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we frolic all night, both hunger and cold we keep

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out with relief plum pudding, goose capon, minced pies and

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roast beef. Then let all curmudgeons, who dote on their

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wealth and value their treasure much more than their health

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go hang themselves up if they will be so kind,

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Old Christmas with them, But small welcome shall find they

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will not afford to themselves without grief. Plum pudding, goose capon,

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minced pies and roast beef. End of Old Christmas Return

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by Henry Visitelli