Or, thus:--
Christ was of a Virgin born;
And he was pricked with a thorn;
And it did neither bell, nor swell,
And I trust in Jesus this never will.
3. A CRAMP.
Cramp be thou faintless,
As our Lady was sinless,
When she bare Jesus.
4. A BURNING.
There came three Angells out of the East;
The one brought fire, the other brought frost--
Out fire; in frost.
In the name of the Father and Son, and Holy Ghost.
AMEN.
1664-5. (JANUARY 2.) To my Lord Brouncker's, by appointment, in
the Piazza, in Covent-Garden; where I occasioned much mirth with
a ballet [The Earl of Dorset's song, "To all ye ladies now at
land," &c.] I brought with me, made from the seamen at sea to
their ladies in town; saying Sir W. Pen, Sir G. Ascue, and Sir J.
Lawson made them. Here a most noble French dinner and banquet.
The street full of footballs, it being a great frost.
4th. To my Lord of Oxford's, but his Lordship was in bed at past
ten o'clock: and, Lord help us! so rude a dirty family I never
saw in my life.
9th. I saw the Royal Society bring their new book, wherein is
nobly writ their charter and laws, and comes to be signed by the
Duke as a Fellow; and all the Fellows' hands are to be entered
there, and lie as a monument; and the King hath put his with the
word Founder.
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