Hearts Ease - Notes
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The play Misogonus, ca. 1560, contained an unpublished
interlude which was directed to be sung to the tune of Heart's
ease. The first two stanzas are as follows:
Singe care away, with sport and playe,
pastime is all our pleasure ;
Yf well we fare, for nought we care,
In mearth consists our treasure.
Let lungis lurke, and druges work,
We doe defie their slaverye ;
He is but a foole, that goes to schole,
All we delight in braverye.
What doth't availe farr hence to saile,
And leade our life in toylinge ;
Or to what end shoulde we here spende
Our dayes in urksome moylinge.
It is the best to live at rest
And tak't as God doth send it ;
To haunt ech wake and mirth to make,
And with good fellowes spend it.
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