Excerpt from Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern; Including the Most Popular in the West of England, and the Airs to Which They Are Sung: Also Specimens of French Provincial Carols, With an Introduction and Notes Marke this songe, for it is trewe; I come from heuin to tell; Now let vs sing with joy and mirth; My sweet little babie; Immortal Babe, who this dear day; Sweet Musicke, sweeter farre; The Boare is dead; I sing the birth was born to-night; Now, now the mirth comes; In numbers, and but these few; Tell us, thou cleere and heavenly tongue; Give way, give way ye gates and win; So now is come our joyful'st feast; A jolly wassel bowl; All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined; be ferste joye as i zu telle; One God, one Baptisme, and one Fayth; Part the Second: A Virgin most pure, as the Prophets do tell; A Child this day is born; The Lord at first had Adam made; The Angel Gabriel from God; When righteous Joseph wedded was; The first Nowell, the Angel did say; When Caesar Augustus had raised a taxation; Joseph being an aged man; When Augustus Caesar throughout; All you that are to mirth inclined; This new Christmas Carrol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.