In a morn by break of day,

With a troop of damsels playing

Forth I rode, forsooth, a-maying,

When anon by a woodside,

Where as May was in his pride,

I espied, all alone,

Phyllida and Corydon.

Much ado there was, God wot!

He would love, and she would not:

She said, never man was true;