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by Anonymous on May 31st, 2008
Tirra lirra is a reference to a line found in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. It is from a song sung by Autolycus in Act IV. Scene III.
...For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
While we lie tumbling in the hay...
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