Eight Maids-a-Milking

Can you milk swans? Or do the maids bring their own cows? I'm not convinced about all these presents.


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I don't have much to say tonight.

Ther is no rose of swych vertu by artsyhonker

REFRAIN: Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bare Jhesu.

Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bare Jhesu.
Alleluya.
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For in this rose conteynyd was
Heven and erthe in lyttyl space,
Resmiranda.
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Be that rose we may weel see
That he is God in personys thre,
Pariforma.
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The aungelys sungyn the sheperdes to:
'Gloria in excelsis Deo.'
Gaudeamus.
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Leive we al this worldly merthe,
And folwe we this joyful berthe:
Transeamus.
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