Thomas Bateson

Thomas Bateson, Batson or Betson (c.1570 – 1630) was an English writer of madrigals in the early 17th century.

Sister, awake! close not your eyes

 * Sister, awake! close not your eyes, The day her light discloses; And the bright morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses. See the clear sun, the world's bright eye, In at our window peeping; Lo, how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping!  Therefore awake, make haste I say, And let us without staying All in our gowns of green so gay Into the park a maying.