One moonshiny night
The following lines were obtained in Oxfordshire. The story to which it alludes is related by Matthew Paris.
“One moonshiny night
As I sat high,
Waiting for one
To come by;
The boughs did bend,
My heart did ache
To see what hole the fox did make.”
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