About the maypole new, with glee and merriment,
  While as the bagpipe tooted it,
  Thyrsis and Chloris fine together footed it:
And to the joyous instrument
  Still they went to and fro, and finely flaunted it,
  And then both met again and thus they chaunted it.
            Fa la!

The shepherds and the nymphs them round enclosèd had,
  Wond’ring with what facility,
  About they turn’d them in such strange agility;
And still when they unloosèd had,
  With words full of delight they gently kissed them,
  And thus sweetly to sing they never missed them.
            Fa la!