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OF ALL THE BIRDS. English, Air (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. In The Knight of the Burning Pestle Merrythought sings three snatches of song from Pammelia and this song, from Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609). The lyric goes:

Of all the birds that ever I see,
The Owl is the fairest in her degree,
For all the day long she sits in a tree,
And when the night comes, away flies she,
Te whit, te who, to whom drinks thou?
Sir knave to thou,
This song is well sung, I make you a vow,
And he is a knave that drinketh now.
Nose, nose, no-o-o-nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Cinamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, and cloves,
And that gave thee thy jolly red nose.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kines (), 1964; pp. 88-89.

Recorded sources:

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