¶ Coridons Song. +Thomas Lodge, Rosalind (1590), fols. 64v-65, prefaced by ‘About mid dinner, to make them merrie Coridon came in with an olde crowne, and plaide them a fit of mirth, to which he sung this pleasant song’. Reprinted in Westminster Drollery (1671), pp. 59-60. Author: Thomas Lodge. Structure (May/Ringler): 40: 5×8 a8a6abc8c6cd8
A Blithe and bonny Country-Lasse, heigh hoe bonny-Lasse, Sate sighing on the tender grasse, and weeping said: will none come wooe me? (5) A smickerhandsome Boy, a litherlithe, agreeable, rather than lither, rascally, base Swaine: heigh hoe a smicker Swaine: That in his loue was wanton faineliked to be sportive , with smiling lookes straight came vnto her.
When as the wantonsportive, amorous Wench espied, (10) heigh hoe when she espied, The meanes to make her selfe a Bride, she simpred smooth like bonnie-bell:
