Love
Simkin said that Sis was fair
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Simkin said that Sis was fair,
And that he meant to love her;
He set her on his ambling mare,—
All this he did to prove her.
When they came home Sis floted cream
And poured it through a strainer,
But sware that Simkin should have none
Because he did disdain her.
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Codex Note
From Giles Farnaby's Canzonets, 1598.
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