The eleuenth of December, the sunne enters into Capricorne, Or the Goate. Capricornus. December

Apollo hath atain'd his lowest seate,
And now the shortnesse of his race is such,
That though his Glory for a time be great:
He giues his sister Cynthia twice as much.
Now is the welcomst time of all the yeere,
Now die the oxen and the fatted hogs,
Now mery Christmas fills the world with cheere,
And chimnies smoake with burning logge, on logs.
He thats a mizer all the yeere beside
Will reuell now, and for no cost will spare,
A pox hang sorrow, let the world goe slide:
Lets eate and drinke, and cast away all care.
Thus when Apollo's at the horned Goate,
He makes all Christendom with mirth to floate.