Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe? ha! <br />Would you ha'kept me out? Christmas, old Christmas? <br />Christmas of London, and Captaine Christmas? <br />Pray you let me be brought before my Lord Chamberlaine, i'le not be answer'd else: <br />'Tis merrie in hall when beards wag all: <br />I ha'seene the time you ha'wish'd for me, for a merry Christmas, <br />And now you ha'me; they would not let me in: <br />I must come another time! <br />A good jest, as if I could come more than once a year; <br />Why, I am no dangerous person, and so I told my friends, o'the Guard. <br />I am old Gregorie Christmas still<br /><br />Ben Jonson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/christmas-his-masque-extract/
