Note 1039 — SCENE III.
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logs yet to keep Christmas with] The bringing in and burning of the log, a huge piece of fire-wood, was (at least in the country) an important ceremony on Christmas eve. It was lighted with a piece of the last year’s brand: see the poem entitled Ceremonies for Christmasse in Herrick’s Hesperides, p. 309, ed. 1648.