Nature
The Urchins' Dance
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Nature
By the moon we sport and play,
With the night begins our day:
As we frisk the dew doth fall;
Trip it, little urchins all!
Lightly as the little bee,
Two by two, and three by three;
And about, about go we.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Ravenscroft's Brief Discourse, &c., 1614.
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