Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-12-21
CHRISTMAS CAROLS.

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religious ballads now popular among the
peasantry OF England and which were sub
sttuted by those close-cropped enemies to
music and mirth, the Puritans, but ditties OF
good eating and drinking and general jollity.
as may be learned from rare manuscript
poem of the Fifteenth Century:
The lewid people than algntes qgre,
And caroles singer everi' criste messe ty de,
Not with shamfastenes bot jocondle,
And holev bowghes aboute; and all asydde
The brenning tyre hem eten, and hem drinkC
And laughen mereli. and maken route,
And pype, and dansen, and hem rage
ne, swinke
Ne noe thynge els, twalve daye thei woldi not
This is the earliest aluson to the custom
of keeping up the Christmas festivities fol-
twelve days, which accounts for our modern
Twelfth Night, great theatrical and gene
raj holiday in England but to which no at
tention is paid in this country The ancient
carol at the bringing in of the boar's head at
Christmas dinners, still sung at Queen S Col
lege, Oxford, is as old as the first Henry, for
at his coronation, in ITO, we learn that it
was used as follow:
Caput Apri derero. Reddens laudes Domino,
The bores head in hand hrnge
With garIandes gay and rosemary
praYe YOU all synge merreh
Qui estis in convlviO
The bores head understands
is the chief service in this lance
Loke wherever IT. o' id"ue
Ser''te cuih cd''t'c"'
Almost all the old carols have Latin bur-
dens or intermxtures, showing their monas-
tee origin and It was when the English Reior-
nation had established the Epscopaan IL
turgy that these Latin scraps We're banished
from the jovlai songs of Merry Christmas
the time when everybody was toasted, and
wien t1e ihPahPS, serving iha1' the Io"heSt
Pe"Sanu was welcomed 10 Vue ,i'osU iorulI
o""iue'InS ha,'; P'ace1 pete'f,u ne SUIT ana
among one honeS ana l"'r lauIeS' sang ms
Iuue caIoiS anu PIiSeu nus MERRY Pl""hs' as
we we read IN an oId author. among the
CnrIsCiiits lusnahdle ARE Goou qrhK'
eoou hre III t1e nan orl"he' puddihH ana
souSe' ana mustard WlGha!'' oeeI' mutton ana
pork Shied' pies Oh tne pest pig veal goose
capoo' ana turkey cheese apples, ana nuts
WIN IoHy cafoi 10 the tune OF Ming oolo-
ulUH'
Mony .! lLt curry tHIlStlhdS caro's arS
'uut III n'Iu'uGit' ut'c''Nt III ny me- anu oi
. rn''u'HIi sun P"'i'H III lug! N' N"''" opredr
very coilllcai 70 our ehIgn'rheu Eehpta'loh'
WINE sotie ueilt WIZ hlfar'PS upper alulnE
~ Vlle VI NnlcI noI,''uH snort 81
Ulp llosO pilnit NV. purify cou'u permit the
IecIGaIiom' VI ms ,u' YER c'aSS rs tne Carol
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eolhe"ll'll 'h9G l5 . Ior'li, sung py the
RroS""t anu r-au ih'iie'S VI Uue Deio Ss"ile
e'N' ~ f folniitei ii',e'9 80, 81, ,,,
'oSel,n "dS an o'' man
su, ~ o'u l"', WIS 'e
anu ue hiaIf!e" MuI9'
Anotnef very curious carol OF Chrst mas
lIhe printed on oa,ad paper IN oIacR ietter'
Itlui leo o'ef'SlQlaIy ne '"uIG paS'fu on Il
l DGi sure cottage wall "hlcn Is heaueu
OhIlSius haIus est' ana Wnch is orha-
'lIen , WIN rude "oo"-cuU o. heNalVtE,
~ WhIcu are seen hummer Of uoineSuc am
i nuns WIN laoeiS issuing rom thelF mouths;
~, mus Tue rooSeeF crows cn,lsIuS hatuseSt'
! We raven ave ASKS Qu4anluot ne COW ans,
Wyeers' nae hocJe; me OK neHoNs, uni
uoi Inc eleep pleaIs, DelheHehl' WINE
u"Ig ming o1G5 OF tlouH pears III It's
oe,tN ."e 'efuu' T'or'a IN ENc',s'S.