The copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, which contains a selection of Byrd's keyboard pieces, was completed in 1591.
Beholde the skyes with golden dyes Are glowing all around, The grasse is greene, and so are the treene All laughing at the sound.
The horses snort to be at the sport, The dogges are running free, The wooddes rejoyce at the mery noise Of hey tantara tee ree!
The sunne is glad to see us clad, All in our lustie greene, And smiles in the skye as he riseth hye, To see and to be seen.
Awake, all men, I say agen, Be mery as you maye, For Harry our King is gone hunting, to bring his deere to baye.