When Christmas Day was drawing near,

To Cheer and make them Merry;

I Broach'd my humming Stout March Beer,

As brown as the Hawthorn Berry:

Of which there was not any lack,

I was my self the Donor;

'Twas fetch'd up in a Leathern Jack,

When I was, &c.

I never lay in Trades-mens Books,

For Gaudy Silks or Sattins;