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Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Note 154 — Songs.

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The subject and burthen of this song are identical with those of the song which immediately follows, called in some copies The Clown’s Courtship, sung to the King at Windsor, and in others, I cannot come everyday to woo. The Kentish ditty cannot be traced to so remote a date as the Clown’s Courtship; but it probably belongs to the same period.

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