make we merry, both more or less ...

Ooops--if he can't do anything, he gets sent to the stocks?! Sounds like a typically Victorian sensibility, whenever it was written! Thanks, roseheather!

PD, the rest of it is here: http://www.santas.net/makewemerry.htm

I've never read that poem before--thanks for sharing it!

Make we merry, both more and less,
For now is the time of Christmas.

Let no man come into this hall,
Nor groom, nor page, nor yet marshall,
But that some sport he bring withal ...



A Christmas poem, whose author is Anonymous