That instantly again to tell it to some other.
[756]. Besides T. Wright’s Songs and Carols, Percy Soc., 1847, see W. Sandy’s Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, London, 1833, with a long introduction, and the same editor’s Festive Songs, Percy Soc., 1848. Sandys (Carols) gives the cries or refrains of many Christmas songs:—
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,—
No—el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el, el,—
Noel, Noel—
à moult granz cris, the familiar refrain in France.
[757]. Remaines Gentil., pp. 9, 21, 23, 26, 31, 36, 40, 161, 180. “Little children,” he says here, “have a custome when it raines to sing or charme away the Raine; thus they all joine in a Chorus, and sing thus, viz.:—
Raine, raine, goe away,
Come againe a Saterday.
I have a conceit that this childish custome is of great antiquity.”