by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Upon a hill, the bonny boy
Language: English
Upon a hill the bonny boy Sweet Thyrsis sweetly played, And called his lambs their master’s joy, And more he would have said; But love that gives the lover wings Withdrew his mind from other things. His pipe and he could not agree, For Milla was his note; The silly pipe could never get This lovely name by rote: With that they both fell in a sound1, He fell a-sleep, his pipe to ground.
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, pages 142-143.
1 i.e., a swoon
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, pages 142-143.
1 i.e., a swoon
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623), "Upon a hill, the bonny boy", published 1608 [three-part chorus a cappella], from the collection Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices, no. 5, Thomas Este, London [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2013-04-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 74