Living
The Elves' Dance
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
Round about in a fair ring-a,
Thus we dance and thus we sing-a;
Trip and go, to and fro,
Over this green-a;
All about, in and out,
Over this green-a.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Ravenscroft's Brief Discourse, &c., 1614.
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