“At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet
"The Farmer's Daily Diet".
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“I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.”
— James Joyce, book Finnegans Wake
Page 113
Finnegans Wake (1939)
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