Lusty Gallant

According to Popular Music of the Olden Time (William Chapell, 1859), this song can be dated to some time before 1577.

Fain would I have a pretty thing

To give unto my lady

I name no thing

And mean no thing

But as pretty a thing as may be.

Twenty journeys would I make

And twenty days would hie me

To make adventure for her sake

To set some matter by me.

Some do long for pretty knacks

And some for strange devices

God send me what my lady lacks

I care not what the price is.