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BALLADE OF PENTECOST, by                    
First Line: On high pentecost I found
Last Line: With a rose on either syde.
Subject(s): Holidays; Hope; Love; Marriage; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON high Pentecost I found
In thys gracious month of Maye,
Her to whom my heart is bound
In a garden faire a-straye,
Pluckynge roses. I did saye
"Kyss me." "Gladlye," she reply'd.
In thys wise Love hadde hys waye,
With a rose on either syde.

Since her love me comforted
Doubt and fear are driven awaye;
Now with Hope I ever tread
On that garden of deare claye.
Hence her gentle leave and aye
Fond desirës that abyde
Still as sweet as when we laye
With a rose on either syde.

Her sweet kyss hath driven oute
More of grief than I can saye;
All my sorrowe and my doubte
Now is soothéd by her swaye.
I doe bless the houre and daye
Found me thus soe faire a bryde
Kissynge in soe kynde a waye,
With a rose on either syde.

Prince, thys ladye on a daye
I did fynde for mate and bryde;
There and then I kyssed my faye
With a rose on either syde.





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