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Thread #2647   Message #3638475
Posted By: Noreen
02-Jul-14 - 08:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Serving Girl's Holiday
Subject: RE: Origins: Serving Girl's Holiday
Unlikely, Sarahbuyrdd (if you're still around, 2 years later!)

Maddy Prior is quoted as saying:
I found this poem in a book that I suspect had a translation from Middle English of The Serving Maid's Holiday from Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th and 15th Century. I set it to the tune of Orientus Partibus which I heard on a David Munroe album.
(Liner notes for 2012 CD "3 for Joy" Maddy Prior with Hannah James and Giles Lewin.)