TESTO DEL LIED

"Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge)"
di Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)

Whurret!
Duty

Beauty
Quando
Timble
Travel
Trover
Jew

Damsel
Hey dogs hey! Ware haunt hay!

Sith sickles and the shearing scythe
Hath shorn the fields of late,
Now shall our hawks and we be blithe,
Dame Partridge ware your pate!
Our murdering kites
In all their flights
Will seld or never miss
To truss you ever and make your bale our bliss.

Whurret!
Wanton
Sugar
Mistress
Semster
Faver
Minx
Callis
Dover
Sant
Dancer
Jerker
Quoy

Whurret!
Tricker
Crafty
Minion
Dido

Civil
Lemmon
Cherry
Carver
Courtier
Stately
Ruler
German let fly!

O well flown, eager kite, mark!
We falconers thus make sullen kites
Yield pleasure fit for kings,
And sport with them in those delights,
And oft in other things.