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Lithographs. | | PAGE | | Play before Queen Elizabeth | frontispiece | | Ushering in the Boar’s Head | 30 | | Pageant before Henry the Eighth | 66 | | Lord of Misrule, G. Ferrers | 86 | | New Year’s Gifts to Queen Elizabeth | 100 | | Temple Revels, temp. Charles the Second | 130 | | The Wassail Bowl | 134 | | Old Christmas Festivities | 142 | | The Christmas Tree | 152 |
Vignettes. | | CHAP. | | 1 Edward the First’s Offering at the Epiphany | 1 | | 2 Froissart’s Christmas Log | 23 | | 3 Merry Carol | 45 | | 4 Archie returning his Christmas Gift | 63 | | 5 Teonge’s Twelfth Night at Sea | 85 | | 6 Charles the Second gambling at Christmas | 103 | | 7 Pepys’ Wassail Bowl | 127 | | 8 Modern Christmas Plays | 145 | | 9 Three Kings offering | 159 | | 10 Carol Singers of old | 173 | | 11 Decorating with Evergreens | 199 | | Carols | 215 | | A Mock Play | 292 | | Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon, as represented in the West of England | 298 | | Index to Carols | 303 | | Index to principal matters | 305 | | Index of References | 306 |
Music. | | A Virgin most pure | 313 | | A Child this day is born | 315 | | The Lord at first had Adam made | 316 | | The first Nowell | 318 | | This New Christmas Carol | 319 | | God rest you, merry gentlemen | 320 | | St. Stephen | 321 | | God’s dear Son | 323 | | To-morrow shall be my dancing-day | 324 | | I saw three ships | 325 | | Joseph was an old man | 326 | | In those twelve days | 327 | decoration
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