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arthur shepherd - the fiddlers lyrics

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nine feat fiddlers had good queen bess
to play her music as she did dress
behind an arras of horse and hound
they sate there scr+ping delightsome sound
spangled, bejewelled, her skirts would she
draw o’er a petticoat of cramasie;
and soft each string like a bird would sing
in the starry dusk of evening
then slow from the deeps the crisscross bows
crooning like doves, arose and arose
when, like a cage, did her ladies raise
a stiff rich splendour o’er her ribbed stays
like bumbling bees those four times nine
fingers in melodies loud did pine;
last came her coif and her violet shoon
and her virgin face shone out like the moon:
oh, then in a rapture those three times three
fiddlers squealed shrill on their topmost c



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