Merry, merry, merry, cheary, cheary, cheary,
Trowl the black bowl to me;
Hey, derry, derry, with a poup and a lerry,
I’ll trowl it again to thee.
Hooky, hooky,[[688]] we have shorn,
And we have bound,
And we have brought Harvest
Home to town.”
The tendency to put popular and traditional songs into a play was common everywhere. Hans Sachs[[689]] used a May-song for the ring-dance which is clearly made in its turn out of a lusty old refrain:—
Der Mei, der Mei,