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THOMAS YOU CANNOTT

THOMAS YOU CANNOTT

[c. 1603–5]

[Percy Folio Manuscript, page 521 of MS. Music in Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time, i. 337: the words exist only in this MS.].

point = a tagged lace to fasten the dress.Thomas vntyed his points apace, & kindly hee beseechesthat shee wold giue him time & space ffor to vntye his breeches.“Content, Content, Content!” shee cryes.he downe with his breeches imedyatlye,& ouer her belly he Cast his thye.But then shee Cryes “Thomas! you Cannott, you Cannott! O Thomas, O Thomas, you Cannott!”
Thomas, like a liuely ladd, lay close downe by her side:he had the worst Courage that euer had man; in conscience, the pore ffoole Cryed.
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