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Fynes lude de taylars and scharmen.
Tys matter / nevly correcte be Robart Croo / the xiiijt h dey of marche / fenysschid in the yere of owre Lorde God / M CCCCC & xxxiiijt e. / then beyng mayre mastur Palmar / also mastris of the seyd fellyschipp Hev Corbett / Randull Pynkard and / John Baggeley.Theise songes (113) / belonge to / the Taylors and Shearemens Pagant. / The first and the laste the shepheards singe / and the second or middlemost the women singe.
Thomas Mawdycke
Die decimo tertio Maij anno domini millessimo quingentesimo nonagesimo primo. / Praetor fuit ciuitatis Couentriæ D. Mathaeus Richardson, tunc Consules / Johanes Whitehead et Thomas Grauener.
Song I.
[Shepheards]
As I out rode this enderes night,
Of thre ioli sheppardes I saw a sight,
And all a-bowte there fold a star shone bright;
They sange terli terlow;
So mereli the sheppards ther pipes can blow.
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[Women]
Lully, lulla, thow littell tine child,
By by, lully lullay, thow littell tyne child,
By by, lully lullay!
By by, lully lullay, thow littell tyne child,
By by, lully lullay!
O sisters too,
How may we do
For to preserve this day
This pore yongling
For whom we do singe
By by, lully lullay?
How may we do
For to preserve this day
This pore yongling
For whom we do singe
By by, lully lullay?
Herod, the king,
In his raging,
Chargid he hath this day
His men of might
In his owne sight
All yonge children to slay,—
In his raging,
Chargid he hath this day
His men of might
In his owne sight
All yonge children to slay,—
That wo is me,
Pore child, for thee,
And ever morne and may
For thi parting
Nether say nor singe,
By by, lully lullay.
Pore child, for thee,
And ever morne and may
For thi parting
Nether say nor singe,
By by, lully lullay.
Song III.
[Shepheards]
Doune from heaven, from heaven so hie,
Of angeles ther came a great com̃panie,
With mirthe and ioy and great solemnitye,
The sange terly terlow;
So mereli the sheppards ther pipes can blow.
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