Get Ivy and Holly and deck up thine house,
And take this same brawn to seethe and to souse.
Provide us good cheer, for thou know’st the old guise:
Old customs, that good be, let no man despise.
At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast thy poor neighbours, the great with the small.
Yea, all the year long, to the poor let us give:
God’s blessing to follow us, while we do live.
