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The Shepherd's carol for New Year's Day

from To Shorten Winter's Sadness by Passamezzo

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The New Year is begun, good morrow, my masters all!
The cheerful rising sun now shining in this hall
Brings mirth and joy to man and boy With all that here doth dwell
Whom Jesus bless with loves increase , so things prosper well.
A New Year's gift I bring unto my master here,
Which is a welcome thing of mirth and merry cheer
A New Year's lamb come from thy dam an hour before daybreak,
Your noted ewe doth this bestow, Good master, for thy sake.
And to my dame so kind this New Year's gift I bring;
I'll bear an honest mind unto her whilst I live,
Your white-wooled sheep I'll safely keep from harm of bush or brier,
That garments gay for your array may clothe you the next New Year.
And to your children all these New Year's gifts I bring;
And though the price be small, they’re fit for queen or king;
Fair pippins red kept in my bed a-mellowing since last year,
Whose beauty bright so clear of sight their hearts will glad and cheer.
And to your maids and men I bring both points and pins;
Come bid me welcome then, the good New Year begins:
Thy office show before I go, my bottle and bag come fill,
And for thy sake I'll merry make upon the next green hill.

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from To Shorten Winter's Sadness, released November 17, 2020

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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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