Love
Why are you Ladies staying
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Why are you Ladies staying,
And your Lords gone a-maying?
Run apace and meet them
And with your garlands greet them.
'Twere pity they should miss you,
For they will sweetly kiss you.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals of Five and Six Parts, 1600.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Why are you Ladies staying.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/187/.
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