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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Two Carols. II. In Die Nativitatis

Anonymous

Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Nowell!

Tidings good I think to tell!

THE BOAR’S HEAD, that we bring here,

Betokeneth a Prince without peer

Is born this day, to buy us dear!
Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! etc.

A Boar is a sovereign beast,

And acceptable in every feast;

So mote this Lord be to most and least!
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This Boar’s head we bring with song,

In worship of Him that thus sprang

Of a Virgin, to redress all wrong.
Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! etc.