"Phillida" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914 Munson Aldrich Havens, Old Valentines, Chapter X",
          "text": "While he dressed he sang an ancient ballad, at the top of his voice, to an air he improvised.\nPhillida was a fair maid / As fresh as any flower; / Whom Harpalus the herd-man praide / To be his paramoure. / Harpalus and eke Corin, / Were herd-men both ysere; / And Phillida would twist and spinne, / And thereto sing ful clere.\n\"Phyllis!\" cried John. \"Can you hear in the bedroom? I sing of thee!\" \"I thought her name was Phillida,\" said Phyllis, setting the bedroom door ajar. \"Phillida is Old English for Phyllis,\" he explained."
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