At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the
matter.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.

For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.

I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.

I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.