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MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 13 by ANONYMOUS

First Line: BENEATH THE BRANCH OF THE GREEN MAY
Last Line: THAT MONTH THEREAFTER I AM GAY
Subject(s): LOVE;
Beneath the branch of the green may
My merry heart sleeps happily,
Waiting for him who promised me
To meet me here again this day.

And what is that I would not do
To please my love so dear to me?
He loves me with leal heart and true,
And I love him no less, pardie.

Perchance I see him but a day;
Yet maketh he my heart so free—
His beauty so rejoiceth me—
That month thereafter I am gay.



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