Living
Lo! country sport that seldom fades
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Living
Lo! country sport that seldom fades;
A garland of the spring,
A prize for dancing, country maids
With merry pipes we bring.
Then all at once for our town cries!
Pipe on, for we will have the prize.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals to Three, Four, Five and Six Voices, 1597.
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