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Rh But yet moreover these fooles are so unwise, That in cold winter they use the same madness. When all the houses are lade with snowe and yse, O madmen amased, unstable, and witless! What pleasure take you in this your foolishness? What joy have ye to wander thus by night, Save that ill doers alway hate the light?'

Another verse explains that not only the foolish young men of low birth were given to this practice, but also—

Brant had no great opinion of the music provided either. He describes their singing before their lady's window—

Finally—a Parthian shot—

Thus, one hundred years before Shakespeare was