These prettie ladies had;

When Tom came home from labour,

Or Ciss to milking rose,

Then merrily merrily went theyre tabor,

And nimbly went theyre toes.

Wittness those rings and roundelayes

Of theirs, which yet remaine,

Were footed in queene Maries dayes

On many a grassy playne;

But since of late, Elizabeth,