Some say, that ever or that season comes 
Wherein our Savi birth is celebrated, 
This bird of atening ioneth all night long. 
_ then, — say, no ap stirs abroa 
nights ar wholes ; then no planet strikes i 
No! fairy ies nor witch “hath power to char 
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time. 
Shaks. Hamlet. 
Christmas, the joyous period of the 
Now Yt bright Holly all the aeles strow, 
7 
Wi urel green, and sacred Mistletoe. 
With holly and ivy, 
bays, a mary 
And laurel Falla 
- And every one now 
Is a angi in conceit, 
From ‘‘ Poor Robin's Almanac, for 1695. 
26. Heath, purple, Erica purpurea, St. Stephen, the 
firs 
27. > a Erica flammea, St. John, the Apostle 
and Evangelis' 
92 
egal Ww hn suffered from Herod’s cru 
29. Heath, Hrica ae St. Thomas, ‘Archbishop 
of Canterbury, A «Di 
0. Ponthieva, cancun Ponthieva glandulosa, St. 
nora A. D. 304 
There is no flower appropriated to the 31st December. 
28. Heath, bloody-flowered, Erica cruenta, the Holy 
uelt; 
‘Tf New Year’s eve night-winds blow South 
If North, much cold, and — co will be; 
If Last, ‘the trees will bear much fruit ; 
If North-east, flee it man and brute,’ 
And the next to this is bo et ad s day, 
Whereon to every fre 
ier Petia presents in oe bring 
w-Year’s gifts do sende. 
rae gifts the husband Gig fils wife, 
And father oa the childe, 
And master o men bestowes 
The like, with tg ilde. 
From the Latin of Thomas Naogeorgus, 
written in 1558. Translated by Barnarbe Googe. 
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