Here's the tune for In Dessexshire As It Befel. Verses 3 and 4 use the repeat of verses 1 and 2.

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X:1
T:In Dessexshire As It Befel
C:Traditional from Gillinton: Old Christmas Carols of the Southern Counties
B: Alice E. Gillington: Old Christmas Carols of the Southern Counties, London, 1910
L:1/8
M:4/4
I:linebreak $
N: Original in Fm
K:Gm
(GA) |: B2 (BA) G2 (GA) | B2 A2 (G A2) A | B2 A2 (A B2) c | d2 g2 d2 dd |$
w: 1.In_ Des-sex--shire, as_ it be-fel,_ A farm-er there_ as I know well, On a
d2 g2 f2 ee | d2 c2 (B c3) | d2 dd d d2 d | G2 B2 !fermata!G2 (GA) ||$
w: Christ-mas day as it hap-pened so,_ Down in the mead-ows he went to plough. 2.As_
B2 A>A G G3 | F2 G2 D3 D | F2 E2 D3 D | F2 E2 D3 D |$
w:he was a-plough-ing on so fast, Our Sa-viour Christ came by at last; He
G2 A2 B2 (BG) | ^F2 A2 D3 A | B2 (AG) A2 d2 | c2 A2 !fermata!G2 (GA) :|$
w: said, "O man, why_ dost thou plough, So hard as_ it do blow and snow?" 5.His_
B2 (BA) G2 GA | B2 A2 (G A2) A | B2 A2 (A B2) c | d2 g2 d2 dd |$
w: wife and_ chil-dren were out at play;_ And all the world_ con-sumed at last; And his
d2 g2 f2 ee | d2 c2 (B c3) | d2 dd d3 d | A2 B2 !fermata!G2 |]
w: beasts and cat-tle all died a-way_ For break-ing of the Lord's Birth-day.