It was a mayde of brente nars
For Christmas
Source: Edward Bliss Reed, ed., Christmas Carols Printed in the 16th Century Including Kele's Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932).
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In a Middle English font: It was a mayde of brente nars
Synge Dyllum dyllum dyllum dyllum
I can tell you and I wyll
Of my ladyes water myll
It was a mayde of brente nars
She rode to myll vpon a hor~e
Yet was the mayden neuer the wor~e
Synge dyllum. &c.
Layde ~he was vpon a ~acke
Stryke ~ofte ~he ~ayd hurt not my backe
And ~pare not let the myll clacke
Synge dyllum. &c.
I wys the myller was full nyce
His myl~tones hanged both by a vyce
And wolde be walkynge at a tryce
Synge dyllum. &c.
This mayd to myll ofte dyd re~orte
And of her game made no reporte
But to her it was full great conforte
Synge dyllum. &c.
Finis.
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