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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Saturday, February 26, 2000 11:38 PM, Scot and Domino Eddy</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>[SMTP:domino7@texas.net] wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Hey Folks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I'm looking for the words to a song. I hope I have the first couple</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> of lines</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> right since I don't have the title. Please send me a words if you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> can. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Fair Kit hath lost her key,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> But I have one will fit.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Jovian</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The following was found on a marvelous site called Cantaria</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(www.chivalry.com/cantaria) in their Pre-1600 section. This site</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>also has Real Audio and WAV versions of the song being sung.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>- --- Begin Cantaria Information ---</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Historical notes: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- From Old Songs and Ballads, E.F. Rimbault, printed 1851. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The following ballad possesses a tinge of humour rarely found in the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>productions of the early part of the sixteenth century. It is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>preserved among the Ming's Manuscripts, in the British Museum. In</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>1561-2 John Tysdale had a license for printing a Ballad, entitled</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>'Kytt hath loste hyr Keye,' which may possibly be the first version</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>below. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The second version of this song seems to be an answer or continuation</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>of the first ballad. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Version the first:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt hath lost hur keye, hur key, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Goode Kytt hath lost hur key, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>She is so sorry for the cause, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>She wotts not what to say; </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Goode Kitt's so sorry for the cause, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>She wotts not what to say. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Goode Kytt she wept, I ask'd why so </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>That she made all this mone? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>She sayde, alas! I am so woo, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>My key is lost and gone. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt hathe lost, etc. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt, why did ye losse your key, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Fore sothe ye were to blame, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Now ev'y man to you will say, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt Losse Key is your name. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt hathe lost, etc. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Goode Kytt she wept and cry'd, alas! </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Hur key she cowde not fynde; </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>In faythe I trow in bowrs she was, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>With sum that were not kinde. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt hathe lost, etc. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Now, farewell Kytt, I can no more, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I wott not what to say, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>But I shall pray to Gode therefore </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>That you may fynde your key. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kytt hathe lost, etc. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Version the second:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Kitt hath lost her key, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>But I have one will fytt </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Her locke, if she will try, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>And doe not me denie: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I hope she hath more wytte. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>My key is bright, not rusty, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>It is so oft applied </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To lockes that are not dusty, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Of maydens that are lusty, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>And not full fillde with pride. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Then, Kitt, be not too prowde, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>But try my readie key, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>That still hath bene allowde </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>By ladyes faire a crowde, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>The best that ere they see. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You can but try, and than, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>If it fitts not, good bye: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Go to some other man, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>And see if anie can </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Doe better, Kitt, then I. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>But neere come backe to mee, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>When you are gone away, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>For I shall keepe my key </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>For others, not for thee: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Soe either go or stay. </FONT>
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