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First Line: Wash your hands, or else the fire
Last Line: Dead the fire, though ye blow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Household Employees; Nativity, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


Wash your hands, or else the fire
Will not teend to your desire;
Unwasht hands, ye Maidens, know,
Dead the Fire, though ye blow.





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