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VVJTNEY WAKE:
VVItney is a towne neere Oxford whither divers Cour∣tiers, and Officers of Oxford Garison went to the VVakes to bee merry, where they sung and drank themselves out of all their sences, on the VVake day early in the morning, they went out of Oxford singing this song, taught them by Captaine Loyd their Poet as followeth.
At the meeting of the Courtiers and Cavaliers that had appointed to bee merry at VVitney Wake, Captaine LOYD sung thus.
I, and whether shall we goe? To the VVake I tro: Tis the Village. L. Majors sh••w. Oh! to meet I will not faile, For my pallat is in hast, Till J sipp againe and tast, Of the Nūthr̄own-Lasse & Ale. Feele how my Temples ake, For the Lady of the VVake. Hir lips are as soft as a Medler, VVith her Poses and her poynts, And the Ribons on her joynts. The divise of the Fields and the Pedler.
Then from Oxford singing this song, away they went over the Fields to VVitney to the Wakes.
These Gallants being arived at VVitney; early in the morn∣ing, (with their traine from Oxford) where they had appoint∣ed certaine Morris-Dancers to meete them at the Wakes, as also severall Musitians with various sorts of Musicke, viz. the Country Fiders, a Taberer; a payre of bagge-Pipes, and an Harper, and being come to their quarters where they were re∣solved to be merry, they first began to drink hard, but the Mor∣ris-Dancers,