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(historical) A kind of hay (country dance or round) popular during the English Renaissance..
But ye are ſo full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite, And of melancoly mutabilite, That ye would coarte and enforce me Nothing to write, but hay the gy of thre, And I to ſuffre you lewdly to ly Of me with your language full of vilany!
But frendly Faeries, met with many Graces, And lightfote Nymphes can chace the lingring night, With heydeguyes, and trimly trodden traces, Whilſt ſyſters nyne, which dwell on Parnaſſe hight, Doe make them muſick, for their more delight: […]
[…] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […] […] Yet ſhe thumpt it on her way With a ſportly hey de gay: At a mile her daunce ſhe ended, Kindly paide and well commended.
Our Fathers Daughter, if I erre not rarely, Delighted in a ſofter humbler ſweetnes: Not in a hey-de-gay of ſcurvey Gallantry.
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Heydeguy means (historical) A kind of hay (country dance or round) popular during the English Renaissance..
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But ye are ſo full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite, And of melancoly mutabilite, That ye would coarte and enforce me Nothing to write, but hay the gy of thre, And I to ſuffre you lewdly to ly Of me with your language full of vilany!
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