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Ye old-time stave that pealeth out / To Christmas revellers all, / At tavern-tap and wassail-bout, / And in ye banquet-hall. - / Whiles ye old burden rings again, / Add yet ye verse, as due: / "_God bless you, merry gentlemen_"- / _And gentlewomen, too! _