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...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day. Till the live-long day-light fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of...

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...accords aptly with the context, which is then descriptive of the same rustic revelry us in L' Allegro : " When the merry Bells ring round, " And the jocund...and many a maid, " Dancing in the chequer'd shade." P. 93. The Rebeck seems (as Warton there remarked) to have been almost a common name for a fiddle;...