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Have you ever heard a version of the carol “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” as it might have been sung in Shakespeare’s time?  The boisterous melody is in a major key, and the men I heard singing it belted it out as if they were in a public square, with wassail going all round:

O tidings, O tidings
Of comfort and joy!
For Jesus Christ our Savior
Was born u…

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