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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Come, Follow Me, Ye Country Lasses

John Fletcher (1579–1625) or William Rowley (c. 1585–1626)

COME follow me, you country lasses,

And you shall see such sport as passes

You shall dance and I will sing;

Pedro, he shall rub the string;

Each shall have a loose-bodied gown

Of green, and laugh till you lie down.
Come follow me, come follow, &c.

You shall have crowns of roses, daisies,

Buds where the honey-maker grazes;

You shall taste the golden thighs,

Such as in wax-chamber lies:

What fruit please you taste, freely pull,

Till you have all your bellies full.
Come follow me, come follow, &c.