A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny
Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk0&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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A description of the month of #March in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUXIkbYJyg&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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