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5.157 R187993 1 Sing, Sing Whilst We Trip It SIng, sing whilst we trip it, trip trip it, / trip trip it upon the Green, Pepys 5.157 Wing E3816[a]A Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 157 An Excellent new Song, call'd,/ The FAIRY QUEEN,/ OR, THE/ Merry Companions. An Excellent new Song, call'd, The FAIRY QUEEN, OR, THE Merry Companions. An Excellent New Song, Called, The Fairy Queen, or, The Merry Companions. 1/2 sheet folio, 260 x 164 cropped left and right edges, creased surface horizonal rule 0 LONDON: Printed for P. Pelcomb, in the Strand. P. Pelcomb

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/28/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant entertainment love royalty rurallife 08/28/2008 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked; X-Ballad Performed 08/2006 Transcriber Jeffrey P. Hehymeyer Ballad Transcribed 10/25/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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Sing, sing whilst we trip it, trip trip it, trip trip it upon the Green, Let no ill vapours rise or fall, Let no ill vapours rise or fall, No nothing, no nothing offend, Let nothing offend our Fairy Queen, Let nothing, let nothing, let nothing Let nothing offend our Fairy Queen. The Queen is a coming, come coming, Come coming with all her Train, Let's hand and dance a round for joy, Let's hand and dance a round for joy, While Musick, while Musick does sound, While Musick does sound upon the Plain, While Musick, while Musick, while Musick, While Musick does sound upon the Plain. Now let us be singing, sing singing, sing singing in praise o' th' Queen, Her beauty does excel the World, Her beauty does excel the World,
No Goddess, no Goddess so fair, No Goddess so fair is to be seen, No Goddess, no Goddess, no Goddess, No Goddess so fair is to be seen. All joy to the fair one, the fair one, The fair one our Gracious Queen, She is the chief of Love's delight, She is the chief of Love's delight, Let no one, let no one offend, Let no one offend her on the Green, Let no one, let no one, let no one, Let no one offend her on the Green. Come let us all follow, fol follow, fol Follow our Queen each way, Let it be to the Woods or Plain, Let it be to the Woods of Plain, We'll trip it, we'll trip it along, We'll trip it along till break of day, We'll trip it, we'll trip it, we'll trip it, We'll trip it along till break of day.
LONDON: Printed for P. Pelcomb, in the Strand.