My last post on this topic, since my comments so far obviously aren't doing much good. This "Autumn" song has no Roud number. It has no Ballad Index entry. That's because it has never been field collected. The text as quoted is not sixteenth century English. Just because some un-authoritative source calls something a "sixteenth century English folk song" does not make it so. People can be deceived; people can lie. Fakery is well-attested in the history of folk song, since the days of Thomas Percy.
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