A Summer Song, by George Peele

A Summer Song

When as the rye reach to the chin,
And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within,
Strawberries swimming in the cream,
And school-boys played in the stream;
Then O, then O, then O my true love said,
Till that time come again,
She could not live a maid.

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George Peele