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Old English sports, pastimes and customs (1891)

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · London, Methuen and co. · leaf 56

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CHAPTER IV. APRIL. " The spring clad all in gladness Doth laugh at winter's sadness ; And to the bagpipe's sound The nymphs tread out their ground. " Fie then, why sit we musing, Youth's sweet delight refusing ; Say dainty nymphs, and speak : Shall we play barley-breake ? " Old Ballad (a.d. 1603).…

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