Love
Let us in a lovers' round
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Let us in a lovers' round
Circle all this hallowed ground;
Softly, softly trip and go,
The light-foot Fairies jet it so.
Forward then, and back again,
Here and there and everywhere,
Winding to and fro,
Skipping high and louting low;
And, like lovers, hand in hand,
March around and make a stand.
Codex Note
From George Mason's and JOHN EARSDEN's Airs that were sung and played at Brougham Castle in Westmoreland in the King's Entertainment given by the Earl of Cumberland, 1618.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Let us in a lovers' round.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/76/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Let us in a lovers' round.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/76/.
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