Come pretty wag and sing

Come pretty wag and sing, 
The suns all ripening wing, 
fans up the wanton spring, 
O let us both, let's both goe chant it, 
O how fresh May doth flant it.

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , from Private Musicke, ed. by Martin Peerson (or Pearson), published 1620

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Come pretty wag and sing", published 1620, from Private Musicke, ed. by Martin Peerson (or Pearson)
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "Come pretty wag", published 1898 [SATB a cappella], from Eight Four-part Songs, no. 6.

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