Old Christmas returned

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17thC Christmas song set to music by Matthew Locke

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Old Christmas Returned, or, Hospitality Revived.
All you that to Feasting and mirth are inclin'd,
Come here is good news for to pleasure your mind,
Old Christmas is come for to keep open house
He scorns to be guilty of starving a mouse,
Then come boys and welcome, for diet the chief
Plum pudding, Goose, Capon, minc't pies, & Roast beef.
The holly and ivy, about the walls wind,
And shows that we ought to our neighbours be kind,
Inviting each other for pastime and sport
And where we best fare, there we most do resort.
We fail not of victuals, and that of the chief
Plum pudding, Goose, Capon, minc't pies, & Roast beef.
Although the cold weather doth hunger provoke
'Tis a comfort to see how the Chimneys do smoke,
Provision is making for Beer, Ale and wine,
For all that are willing, or ready to dine,
Then hast to the Kitchen for diet the chief
Plum pudding, Goose, Capon, minc't pies, & Roast beef.
Then well may we welcome old Christmas to town
Who brings us good cheer, and good liquor so brown,
To pass the cold winter away with delight
We feast it all day, and we frolic at night,
Both hunger and cold we keep out with relief
Plum pudding, Goose, Capon, minc't pies, & Roast beef.
Pepys Ballads, 17thC

credits

from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano
Robin Jeffrey: Theorbo
Alison Kinder: Bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance Violin
Richard Mackenzie: Guitar
Michael Palmer: Baritone
Peter Wilcock: Bass

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador. ... more

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