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29. Old Christmas Returned (or Hospitality Revived)
Being a Looking-glass for rich Misers, wherein they may see (if they be not blind) how much they are to blame for their penurious
house-keeping, and likewise an encouragement to those noble-minded gentry, who lay out a great part of their estates in hospitality,
relieving such persons as have need thereof: ‘Who feasts the poor, a true reward shall find, Or helps the old, the feeble, lame, and blind.’*
Anon.* JAAKKO MÄNTYJÄRVI
(b. 1963)
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Old Christ - mas is
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1. All you that to feast - ing and mirth are in - clin’d, Come,
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* From William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, 1833).
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*4. Then wel - come we Old Christ - mas, town, Who
4. Then well may we wel - come Old Christ - mas to town, Who
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* If divisi is possible, the 2nd sopranos should double the (tenor) melody in bars 75–91.