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[XX. Say gentle Nymphes]

Say gentle Nymphes ye tread these mountains

Say gentle Nymphes ye tread these mountains saye gentle Nymphes that tread these mountaines these mountaines, whilst sweetly you sit playing, sit playing, sweetly sit playing. whilst sweetly you sit playing. Saw you my Daphne my (Sweet) Daphne straying along your Cristall foūtains. If so you chaunce to meet hir, kisse hir and kindly greet hir, then these sweet garlands take hir, and say from mee, and say from mee I neuer wil forsake hir. If so you chaunce to meet



hir, kise hir and kindly greet hir, then these sweet garlands take hir, and say from mee, and say from mee I neuer will forsake hir.