At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Who goeth a borrowing/ Goeth a sorrowing./ Few lend (but fools)/ Their working tools.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the nex

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.