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" Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts "
Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ... - Page 468
by John Brand - 1853
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...the good dame, she, Bids you all be free. And drinks to your hearts' denring. With the last yeare's brand Light the new block, and, For good success in his spending. On your psalteries play That sweet luck may, Come while this log is a-teending. Drink now the strong beere,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 28

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1850 - 724 pages
...commands his " merrie boys" to bring the log to the firing, and then instructs them how to proceed : — " With the last year's brand Light the new block, and For good successe in his spending, On your pgaltries play, That sweet luck may Come while the lug is a teending."...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 1

John Brand - 1853 - 576 pages
...Christmas Eve." The following occurs ID Herrick's Hesperides, p. 309 : " Ceremonies for Christmassy. " Come bring, with a noise, My merry, merrie boys, The...firing ; While my good dame she Bids ye all be free, With the last year's brand Light the new block and, For good success in his spending, On your psaltries...
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The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 4

1854 - 710 pages
...during the kindling of the Yule clog : — Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your heart's desiring. \fith the last war's brand Light the new block, and For good success in his spending, On your psalteries...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 7

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...friends the merry distich : — " Соще, bring, with a noise, My merry, merry boye, The Christmas clog to the firing ; While my good dame she Bids ye all be free, And drink tu your heart's desiring." If we have lost some halcyon festivities with the passing away of these...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 7

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...friends the merry distich : — " Come, bring, with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas clog to the firing ; While my good dame she Bids ye all be free, And ih ink to your heart's desiring." If we have lost some halcyon festivities with the passing away of...
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Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...

Robert Herrick - 1856 - 338 pages
...no fire. CEREMONIES FOE CHRISTMASSE. COME, bring with a noise. My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring. "With the last yeeres brand Light the new block, And For good successe in his spending,...
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Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...

Robert Herrick - 1856 - 336 pages
...no fire. CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMASSE. COME, bring with a noise, My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts desiring. With the last yeeres brand Light the new block, And For good successe in his spending,...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...hospitality are going f -: ward : — Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry hoys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts' desiring. With the last year's brand Light the new block, and For good success in his spending,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 121

1918 - 1012 pages
...is, to be sure, the good old song: — Come bring with a noise. My merrie, metric boys, The Christmas log to the firing; While my good dame, she Bids ye all make free, And drink to your heart's desiring. But this refers to a particular log, the Yule log (or...
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