If Christmas Day on a Friday be
If Christmas day on a Friday be,
The first of winter hard shall be,
With frost and snow and with great flood,
But the end thereof it shall be good.
Again, the summer shall be good also;
Folk in their eyes shall have great woe;
Women with child, beasts, and corn
Shall multiply, and be lost none.
The child that is born on that day,
Shall live long, and lecherous be alway.
Who stealeth ought shall be found out,
If thou be sick it lasteth not.
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Happy Christmas from Untold Lives!
Verse taken from 1347.l.14 Christmas with the poets (London, 1855), based on British Library Harley MS 2252 f.153v The Commonplace Book of John Colyns.
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