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

On a Fair Morning

Anonymous

ON a fair morning, as I came by the way,

Met I with a merry maid in the merry month of May;

When a sweet love sings his lovely lay

And every bird upon the bush bechirps it up so gay:

With a heave and a ho! with a heave and a ho!

Thy wife shall be thy master, I trow.

Sing, care away, care away, let the world go!

Hey, lustily all in a row, all in a row,

Sing, care away, care away, let the world go!