"Vindication of Christmas" - Speech - 1653 "Vindication of Christmas" (1653) 65----vc.xml mastermummers.org [Anon.] Vindication of Christmas 1653, pp.7-8

Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).

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Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.

Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.

 England 1653 Christmas [Not given] Literary Parallel Father Christmas

Verse of what is described as a "carol". Variations of the initial couplet are found in folk plays, although it is in any case a commonplace saying.

 20-Feb-1995 Peter Millington Entered 25-Mar-1997 Peter Millington File named 28-May-2002 PTMs Note added 15-Jan-2021 Peter Millington TEI-encoded Father Christmas Let's dance and sing, and make good chear, For Christmas comes but once a year : Draw hogsheads dry, let flagons fly, For now the bells shall ring ; Whilst we endeavor to make good The title 'gainst a King.