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... CHRISTMAS EVE PAGE 233 267 London Markets on Christmas Eve ; the Yule - clog ; Christmas Candles ; Wassail Bowl ; Omens and Super- stitions ; Old Christmas Eve ; Midnight Mass . CHRISTMAS DAY 285 Religious Services ; Plum Pudding ...
... CHRISTMAS EVE PAGE 233 267 London Markets on Christmas Eve ; the Yule - clog ; Christmas Candles ; Wassail Bowl ; Omens and Super- stitions ; Old Christmas Eve ; Midnight Mass . CHRISTMAS DAY 285 Religious Services ; Plum Pudding ...
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... CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME GALANTEE SHOW MARKET CHRISTMAS EVE - WASSAIL BOWL 233 · 239 249 • 266 • 267 • 275 OLD CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS PUDDING COUNTRY CHURCH , CHRISTMAS MORNING . • 285 286 · 290 BRINGING IN THE BOAR'S HEAD 295 CHRISTMAS DINNER ...
... CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME GALANTEE SHOW MARKET CHRISTMAS EVE - WASSAIL BOWL 233 · 239 249 • 266 • 267 • 275 OLD CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS PUDDING COUNTRY CHURCH , CHRISTMAS MORNING . • 285 286 · 290 BRINGING IN THE BOAR'S HEAD 295 CHRISTMAS DINNER ...
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... old traditions and holiday customs . Like honest Sir Andrew Aguecheek , we " delight in masques and revels , sometimes altogether . " Many a happy chance has conducted us unpremeditatedly into the midst of some rustic festival , whose ...
... old traditions and holiday customs . Like honest Sir Andrew Aguecheek , we " delight in masques and revels , sometimes altogether . " Many a happy chance has conducted us unpremeditatedly into the midst of some rustic festival , whose ...
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... old ; And when , at times , I think thereon , My weary heart grows cold . " Oh , the mad days that I have spent , " says old Justice Shallow , " and to see how many of mine old acquaintance are dead ! " Yet still we love these ...
... old ; And when , at times , I think thereon , My weary heart grows cold . " Oh , the mad days that I have spent , " says old Justice Shallow , " and to see how many of mine old acquaintance are dead ! " Yet still we love these ...
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... ancient superstitions even for the sake of their antiquity , and endears to him old traditions even because they are old . We cannot readily shake off our reverence for that which our fathers have rev- erenced so long , even where the ...
... ancient superstitions even for the sake of their antiquity , and endears to him old traditions even because they are old . We cannot readily shake off our reverence for that which our fathers have rev- erenced so long , even where the ...
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50 cents amid amongst amusements ancestors ancient appears ballads beautiful birds called carols celebration ceremonies character cheer Christ Christian Christmas day Christmas Eve Church court curious customs daie dancing districts of England domum door dulce domum England Father Christmas feast feelings festival forms furnish gentleman George Ferrers give Gray's Inn hall hath heart Illustrated joyous king lady land laugh light London look Lord of Misrule masque Master memory ment mention merry mingled mirth monarch moral morning mysterious never night observances occasion old Christmas pantomime performed period play pleasant Polydore Virgil Portrait practice present Puritans queen readers reign revels rich rosemary round Saint George Sandys Saturnalia says season sing solemn song speak spirit Stephen's Day superstitions sweet thee things Thomas Cawarden thou tion turkeys Twelfth-night verses voices wassail wassail-bowl winter young courtier Yule