William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Lusty MayAnonymous
O
The balmy dropis from Phœbus sheen
Preluciand beams before the day:
By that Diana growis green
Through gladness of this lusty May.
Til woful hairtis castis his light,
With bankis that bloomis on every brae;
And schouris are shed forth of their sicht
Through gladness of this lusty May.
Rejoicing notis makand their mirth
Richt plesantly upon the spray,
With flourishingis o’er field and firth
Through gladness of this lusty May.
To their ladies they do repair
In fresh morningis before the day,
And are in mirth ay mair and mair
Through gladness of this lusty May.