"Vindication of Christmas" (1653)...
Context
Location: town
[Unlocated]
Time of Occurrence
Christmas
Collective name
[Not given]
Source
Source author
[Anon.]
Source title
Vindication of Christmas
Source publication
1653, pp.7-8
Cast
Father Christmas
Text
Father Christmas
Let's dance and sing, and make good chear,
For Christmas comes but once a year :
Draw hogsheads dry, let flagons fly,
For now the bells shall ring ;
Whilst we endeavor to make good
The title 'gainst a King.
Notes
Verse of what is described as a "carol". Variations of the initial couplet are found in folk plays, although it is in any case a commonplace saying.