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...referred to in Shakespeare's As You Like It 5.3.25—28: This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In spring time .... For other literary analogues, see Spenser's May Eclogue in The Shepheardes...

...sing, hey ding a ding, ding, Sweet lovers love the spring. This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower, In spring time, the only pretty ring time, so When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding,...

...sing, hey ding a ding, ding. Sweet lovers love the spring. This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In springtime, the only pretty ringtime, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding. Sweet...

...sing, hey ding a ding, ding, t lovers love the spring. This carol they began that hour, With a hey and a ho and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower, In spring-time, the only pretty ring-time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding,...

...sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring. This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower, In spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:...

...pretty country folks would lie, In the spring time, &c. m This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In the spring time, &c, IV And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho,...