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Ayres and Dialogues

(To be Sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Base-Violl)

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Song 63. When I see the young men play

[I]

VVhen I see the young men play,
Young me thinks I am as they,
And my aged thoughts lay'd by,
To the dance, with ioy I fly:
Come a flowry chaplet lend me,
Youth and mirthfull thoughts attend me.

II

Age begon, we'l dance among
Those that young are, and be young:
Bring some Wine Boy, fill about;
You shal see the old Man's stout;
Who can laugh and tipple too,
And be mad as well as you.