A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk0&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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