Living
Our country-swains in the morris dance
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
Our country-swains in the morris dance
Thus woo and win their brides,
Will for our town the hobby horse
At pleasure frolic rides:
I woo with tears and ne'er the near,
I die in grief and live in fear.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals, 1597
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Our country-swains in the morris dance.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/105/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Our country-swains in the morris dance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/105/.
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