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you that are unto mirth inclined,

Consider well and do bear in mind

What our great God for us hath done

In sending His beloved Son.

Let all your songs and your praises be

Unto His heavenly Majesty;

And evermore, amongst your mirth.

Remember Christ our Saviour's birth.

The five-and-twentieth of December

Great cause we have to remember;

In Bethlehem, upon that morn,

There was our bless'd Messiah born.

Near Bethlehem shepherds they did keep

Their herds and flocks, a-feeding sheep,

To whom God's Angel did soon appear.

Which put the shepherds in great fear.