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ditty

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ditty
a short simple song or poem


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I understand it, that the song be in quire, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music; and the ditty fitted to the device.
Again, a young girl, more bold and saucy than was fitting, brushed the priest's black robe, singing in his face the sardonic ditty, "niche, niche, the devil is caught.
- From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon
 
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