Christmastide - online book

Its History, Festivities And Carols

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	To be our Redeemer from death, hell, and sin, Which Adam's trangression had wrapt us all in. Rejoice and be you merry, set sorrow aside, Christ Jesus our Saviour was born on this tide. In Bethlehem city, in Jury it was, Where Joseph and Mary together did pass, And there to be taxed with many one more, For Caesar commanded the same should be so. Rejoice, &c. But when they had entered the city so far, The number of people so mighty was there, That Joseph and Mary whose substance was small, Could get in the city no lodging at all. Rejoice, &c. Then they were constrained in a stable to lie, Where oxen and asses they used to tie; Their lodging so simple, they held it no scorn, But against the next morning our Saviour was born. Rejoice, &c.