by George Peele (1556? - 1596)
When as the rye reach'd to the chin
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Language: English
Our translations: DUT
When as the rye reach'd to the chin, And chop-cherry, chop-cherry ripe within, Strawberries swimming in the cream, And schoolboys playing in the stream; Then, O, then O then O, my true love said, Till that time come again She could not live a maid!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with The Book of Elizabethan Verse, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite, 1907.
Text Authorship:
- by George Peele (1556? - 1596), "The Impatient Maid", appears in The Old Wives' Tale, first published 1595 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Line count: 7
Word count: 47