Living
The Satyrs' Dance
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
Round-a, round-a, keep your ring:
To the glorious sun we sing,—
Ho, ho!
He that wears the flaming rays,
And th' imperial crown of bays,
Him with shouts and songs we praise—
Ho, ho!
That in his bounty he'd vouchsafe to grace
The humble sylvans and their shaggy race.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Ravenscroft's Brief Discourse, 1614.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “The Satyrs' Dance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/109/.
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