| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Anonymous. 1604 |
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67. Sister, Awake!
Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals |
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| SISTER, awake! close not your eyes! | |
| The day her light discloses, | |
| And the bright morning doth arise | |
| Out of her bed of roses. | |
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| See the clear sun, the world's bright eye, | 5 |
| In at our window peeping: | |
| Lo, how he blusheth to espy | |
| Us idle wenches sleeping! | |
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| Therefore awake! make haste, I say, | |
| And let us, without staying, | 10 |
| All in our gowns of green so gay | |
| Into the Park a-maying! | |
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