"For Adam's guilt mankind is spilt
And that me rueth sore;
For Adam and Eve here shall I live
Thirty winter and more."
[258]. "Welcome Twelfth Day"
and here is a rhyme (entitled Jolagiafir) for a memory-game they used to play in old times on Twelfth Night after the bean or silver-penny had been discovered in the Twelfth Cake, and the Wassail Bowl has gone round with the Mince Pies.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear-tree.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear-tree.