| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Song of the May | | Anonymous |
| | | SISTER, 1 awake! close not your eyes! | |
| The day her light discloses, | |
| And the bright morning doth arise | |
| Out of her bed of roses. | |
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| See the clear sun, the world’s bright eye, | 5 |
| In at our window peeping. | |
| Lo, how he blusheth to espy | |
| Us idle wenches sleeping! | |
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| Therefore awake! make haste, I say, | |
| And let us, without staying, | 10 |
| All in our gowns of green so gay | |
| Into the Park a-Maying! | |
| | | Note 1. From Thomas Bateson’s First Set of English Madrigals, 1604. [back] | | |
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