The Gardener and His Lord

This page contains seven lines of musical notation printed with movable type. Each line features a five-line stave with a bass clef at the beginning. The notes are a mix of diamond-shaped and oval heads. Syllables of the lyrics are aligned under their respective musical notes, with dashes indicating melismatic extensions or sustained notes.

to gnaw the plants of our garden,

with a vine-branch stick, I sneak away

very quietly, very quietly, very quietly. Bang, rou-pif, pouf, he is

a hundred paces away, he is a hundred paces away, & as

soon as he is all the way over there, that he is all the way over