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Upon a hill, the bonny boy
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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 sound, 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.
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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.
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