Living
We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play,
With pretty sport we pass the day:
Fa la!
We care for no gold,
But with our fold
We dance
And prance
As pleasure would.
Fa la!
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Ballets and Madrigals to Five Voices, 1598.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/161/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/161/.
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