Anonymous. My Fair A-field. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

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

My Fair A-field

Anonymous


SEE 1 where my Love a-Maying goes
With sweet dame Flora sporting!
She most alone with nightingales
In woods delights consorting.

Turn again, my dearest!	5
The pleasant’st air’s in meadows;
Else by the rivers let us breathe,
And kiss amongst the willows.

Note 1. From Francis Pilkington’s First Set of Madrigals, 1614. [back]