| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | On a Fair Morning | | Anonymous |
| | | ON 1 a fair morning, as I came by the way, | |
| Met I with a merry maid in the merry month of May; | |
| When a sweet love sings his lovely lay | |
| And every bird upon the bush bechirps it up so gay: | |
| With a heave and a ho! with a heave and a ho! | 5 |
| Thy wife shall be thy master, I trow. | |
| Sing, care away, care away, let the world go! | |
| Hey, lustily all in a row, all in a row, | |
| Sing, care away, care away, let the world go! | |
| | | Note 1. From Thomas Morley’s Madrigals to Four Voices, 1600. [back] | | |
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