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Thread #81823   Message #1500901
Posted By: chico
06-Jun-05 - 12:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: When Daffadils begin to peere (Shakespear
Subject: Lyr Add: When Daffadils begin to peere


      E          B
When Daffadils begin to peere,
       A            E
With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale,
    B                  A
Why then comes in the sweet o'the yeere,
         B7                   E
For the red blood raigns in y winters pale.

The white sheete bleaching on the hedge,
With hey the sweet birds, O how they sing:
Doth set my pugging tooth an edge,
For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King.

The Larke, that tirra Lyra chaunts,
With heigh, the Thrush and the Iay:
Are Summer songs for me and my Aunts
While we lye tumbling in the hay.


"My Trafficke is sheetes: when the Kite builds, looke to lesser Linnen. My Father nam'd me Autolicus, who be-ing (as I am) lytter'd vnder Mercurie, was likewise a snapper-vp of vnconsidered trifles: With Dye and drab, I purchas'd this Caparison, and my Reuennew is the silly Cheate. Gallowes, and Knocke, are too powerfull on the Highway. Beating and hanging are terrors to mee: For the life to come, I sleepe out the thought of it. A prize, a prize." (1st Folio, Winters Tale)