Hey trolly lolly lo (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2025-10-10) CPDL #87098:
- Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2025-10-10). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 116 kB Copyright: CC BY ND
- Edition notes: Edited from the Henry VIII Manuscript. Original note values and spelling retained.
General Information
Title: Hey trolly lolly lo
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Manuscript c.1513 in the Henry VIII manuscript, no. 109
Description: This is the last piece in the Henry VIII Manuscript. It was added after the main copying had been completed
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Original text and translations
English text
Hey troly loly lo, mayde whether go you?
I go to the medow to mylke my cowe.
Than at the medow I wyll you mete,
To gather the floweris both fayer and swete.
R1:
Nay, God forbede, that may not be;
Iwysse my mother then shall us se.
Now in this medow fayre and grene
We may us sport and not be sene;
And yf ye wyll I shall consent.
How sey ye, mayde? be ye content?
R2:
Nay, in goode feyth,
I wyll not melle with you.
I pray you, sir, lett me go mylke my cow.
Why, wyll ye nott geve me no comfortt,
That in the feldes we may us sportt?
R1.
Ye be so nyce and so mete of age
That ye gretly move my corage;
Syth I love you, love me agayne;
Let us make one, though we be twayne.
R2.
Ye have my hert, sey what ye wyll,
Wherefore ye muste my mynde fulfyll,
And graunte me here yor maydynhed,
Or elles for you I shall be ded.
R2.
Then for this onse I shall you spare,
But the nexte tyme ye muste beware
How in the medow ye mylke yor cow.
Adew, farewell and kysse me now!
R2.