Then heigh ho, the holly,

This Life is most jolly.

Freize, freize, thou bitter skie

That dost not bight so nigh

As benefitts forgot:

Though thou the waters warpe,

Thy sting is not so sharpe,

As freind remembred not.

Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the greene holly,

Most frendship is fayning; most Loving, meere folly: