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''We have put forth a fuller account of thee Carols in the harmonied Folio Edition. It is here ufficient to oberve: that the original words and muic range from the end of the twelfth to the beginning of the fifteenth century: that we give the muic without alteration: and that the words are free imitations, for the mot part, of thee and other ancient Chritmas Carols.''