Christmastide - online book
Its History, Festivities And Carols
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EY, hey, hey, hey, the borrys hede is armyd gay. The boris hede in hond I bryng, With garlond gay in porttoryng, I pray yow alle with me to synge,
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Lordys, kny3ttes, and skyers, Persons, prystis, and wycars, The boris hede ys the furt mes,
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The boris hede, as I yow say,
He takis his leyfe, and gothe his way,
Gone after the xij, theyl ffyt day,
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Then commys in the secunde kowrs with mykylle pryde, The crannus, the heyrrouns, the bytteris by ther syde, The pertrychys and the plowers, the wodcokus and the snyt,
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Larkys in hot schow, ladys for to pyk, Good drynk therto, lycyus and fyne, Blwet of allmayne, romnay and wyin,
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