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MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 13, by                    
First Line: Beneath the branch of the green may
Last Line: That month thereafter I am gay
Subject(s): Love


Beneath the branch of the green may
My merry heart sleeps happily,
Waiting for him who promised me
To meet me here again this day.

And what is that I would not do
To please my love so dear to me?
He loves me with leal heart and true,
And I love him no less, pardie.

Perchance I see him but a day;
Yet maketh he my heart so free—
His beauty so rejoiceth me—
That month thereafter I am gay.





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