An excellent ditty, both merry and witty expressing the loue of the youthes of the city, who take delight, as my song doth say, betimes in the morning to fetch home may. To a pleasant new tune, or the two louely louers. 1627 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A72914 STC 18104.5 ESTC S124578 99899186 99899186 150707

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A72914) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 150707) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1973:5) An excellent ditty, both merry and witty expressing the loue of the youthes of the city, who take delight, as my song doth say, betimes in the morning to fetch home may. To a pleasant new tune, or the two louely louers. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) [... by J. Grismund ...], Printed at London : [c. 1627] Date of publication from STC. Verse - "Awake my owne deare sweeting,". In two parts, printed side by side. Reproduction of original in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.

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 eng Youth -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An excellent Ditty, both merry and witty, Expreſsing the loue of the Youthes of the City, Who take delight, as my Song doth ſay, Betimes in the morning to fetch home May, To a pleaſant new tune, or the two louely Louers.

AWake my owne deare ſwéeting, why doſt thou ſléepe ſo long; The Sun is néere vp riſing, doe not thy ſelfe ſuch wrong, Vpon this pleaſing morning, ſwiftly let's take our way With ioy to welcome in, the merry moneth of May. I ſé the day ſtarre twinckling, riſing in the Eaſt, Which tels vs that Aurora, hath left her ſluggiſh reſt, Then riſe vp my owne Honey, and let vs take our way, With ioy to welcome in, the merry moneth of May. The Flowers are neat and dainty, which doe be all lovlie, To walke into the Meddowes, to giue our hearts delight: Vnder the rare gréene ſhadowes, we may ſport and play, With ioy to welcome in, the merry moneth of May. The birds are ſwéetly ſinging, vpon the gréene-wood • rées, Downe in the Medowes may we, walke vp to the knées, In Primroſe and ſwéet Dazies, with Cowſlyp neat and gay, Then come my onely ſweeting, let vs got gather May. The Nightingale muſt pleaſing, chants forth her merry ſtraine, Then who would ſtay at home, that might ſuch pleaſure gaine. The youthes of this faire City, trimm'd in their beſt orray. Are marching forth this morning, with ioy to gather May. With Drums, with Fifes, and trumpets, they are brauely grac'd, With Muſkets in the forefront, which they haue rately plac'd, They all went on in pleaſure; attyred neat and gay, And euery yong man has his Loue, that goes to gather May. Roger with his Suſan, an • Robert his faire lane, Richard with his ſwéet heart, to be leg doe diſdaine, Swéet William and faire Nancy, in their apparell gay, Is early gone this morning, abroad to gather May. Iohn Iinkin with his Gilian, Tom with Penelope, And Humphrey with ſwéet Prudence why then ſweet may not we, As well as all theſe Louers, in our apparell gay. Vpon this merry morning, walke forth so fetch home May.
The ſecond part. To the ſame tune.

THere's Randall with his Sara, marching hand in hand, Rowland and ſweet Maudlin, that yeelde to his demaund, There's Arthur and ſweet Margaret, which does her Loue obey, Is early gone this morning, abroad to gather May. Nicholas with his Betty, and Francis with faire Mary, Martin with Rebecca, and Dorothy with Harry, El • s with his Katherine, were gone the breake of day, In their apparell neatly, to fetch home gentle May. Edward with ſweet loue, and Lucres with Valentine, Iames with his ſweetheart Alce, they muſt haue Creame and Wine Theſe Louers march in order, whilſt Muſicke ſweet doth play; With ſongs and pleaſant Ditties, about to gather May. This is the moneth of pleaſure, and Aprils watry ſhowers, Hath faln • in comely meaſure, to encreaſe the pleaſing flowers, That Louers gather early, to make them Poſies gay, Compos'd of ſundry colours within the moneth of May. Margery my ſweeting, thy Silueſter doth call, I faine would be this morning, the formoſt of them all. I ſee Apollo's ſplendor, darts from the Eaſt moſt gay, To grace theſe comely Louers, to fetch home louely May. The Blackbird ſings moſt ſweetly, ſo doth the Nightingale, The Fawnes play in the high woods, the Mare runs ore the Dales, The bleating Lambes moſt ſweetly, delight to ſport and play, The ſmall birds ſweetly warble, to welcome pleaſant May. Sweet Sillib • bs w •• 'l haue Loue, with Cakes and P •• ding-pye • , With Creame • e • re • 'd with Sugar if that my Madge will • iſe. L • heare the Cucko • ſing ſweet, and ſee her feathers gray, Who with her notes moſt kindly, doth welcome in ſweet May. Strike vp thy Pipe good Piper, I ſee my Loue doth come, Much like the Queene of beauty, her ſplendor lights the roome, Come, come my gentle ſweeting, with all the ſpeed we may, Lets walke to the greene Meddowes to gather pleaſant May.
L. M. FINIS.

Printed at London for Iohn Griſmand.