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OU spotted snakes with double tongue,

You

Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;

Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,

Come not near our fairy Queen!

Weaving spiders, come not here;

Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!

Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.

Philomel, with melody

Sing in our sweet lullaby;

Lulla, lulla, lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby:

Never harm

Nor spell nor charm

Come our lovely lady nigh:

So, Good Night, with lullaby.

W

HEN daffodils begin to peer,

With heigh! the doxy over the dale,

Why then comes in the sweet o' the year;

For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.

The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,

With heigh the sweet birds, O, how they sing !

Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,

With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,

Are summer songs for me and my aunts,

While we lie tumbling in the hay.

But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?

The pale moon shines by night :

And when I wander here and there,
I then do most go right.

If tinkers may have leave to live
And bear the sow-skin budget,

Then my account I well may give
And in the stocks avouch it.

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:

A merry heart goes all the day,

Your sad, tires in a mile-a.

L

AWN as white as driven snow;

Cypress black as e'er was crow;

Gloves as sweet as damask roses;

Masks for faces and for noses;

Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,

Perfume for a lady's chamber;

Golden quoifs and stomachers,

For my lads to give their dears;

Pins and poking-sticks of steel,

What maids lack from head to heel:

Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;

Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry:

Come buy.