...gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as 5 follows : Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. 10 I pray you all synge merrily Qui estis in convivio. Though prepared to witness many of these little...

...ushering in the boar's head with the singing of the famous carol — ' ' Caput afri diffcro Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary, I pray you all sing merrily Qui cstis in couvh'io. " Tradition says that this old custom commemorates the deliverance...

...with the singing of the famous carol — ' ' Caput afri differ o Reddens laudes Domino. The Ixiar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary, I pray you all sing merrily Qui estis in eonvivio. " Tradition says that this old custom commemorates the deliverance...

...gravity, ai* old carol, the first verse of which was as follows : — " Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you all synge merrily Qui estis in convivio." Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities, from...

...comic gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as follows: Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you all synge merrily Qui estis in convivio. Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities, from...

...Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you all synge merrily Qui estis in convivio. Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities, from being apprised of the peculiar hobby of mine host; yet, I confess, the parade with which so odd a dish was...

...brought into the dining-hall with much state and with the singing of a special carol. This began : — "The Boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary." Brand (Popular Antiquities) also cites a significant passage from Dekker's The Wonderful Year [1603]....

...which there is a fragment in the Bodleian ; it contains the well-known carol, "The bores head in hande bring I With garlands gay and rosemary I pray you all synge merely Qui estis in convivio." In 1522 an edition of the Mirror of Golde for the sinful soul appeared...

...gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as follows : — " Caput apri defero 15 Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you all synge merrily Qui estis in convivio." 20 Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities,...

...Buckhurst 587. Two Carols I. Bringing in the Boar's Head Caput Apr i Defero, Reddens Laudes Domino! * I "HE Boar's Head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary! I pray you all, sing merrily, Qui estis in convivio. The Boar's Head, I understand, Is the chief Service in this land!...