The wind and the rain

Anonimo (sec. XVI-XVII): When that I was, canzone di Feste che conclude La dodicesima notte (1599-1601) di William Shakespeare. Alfred Deller, haute-contre.

When that I was and a little tiny boy,
  With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
  For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came to man’s estate,
’Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate.

But when I came, alas!, to wive,
By swaggering I could never thrive.

[But when I came unto my beds,
With toss-pots still had drunken heads.]

A great while ago the world begun,
  With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that’s all one, our play is done,
  And we’ll strive to please you every day.