To the Wednesday on afternoon We grabbed a walk-in the fresh new occupation, It actually was to create my curage dwon, Yet still I became forced to yield: To possess here I met with good bobtail'd lass, However, I should possess enacted her by the, And i be sure to took her of the hand, A we head their unique to your kye. The brand new pettycoat that she had for the Is made of the blanket bluish, New smock try since the black given that charcole, Trust in me this was genuine; But enticing words, tend to lure more youthful wild birds, Those of their nest manage fly, And you can I'll most likely never believ't is the very first time That she had started stuck on kye. A good council, a people, I render, For your requirements, child, I promote, Never take that have a good bob-tail'd lass For as long as you have an hour to reside. You'd beter capture one that is proper and you will tall, Although she become never ever so poor, To have I never ever is thus disgraced in my own lives When i are from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland off Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what is now NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.
Point step three, English Songs
It had been a good maide from my personal countre Once the she showed up by the an excellent hathorne-tre Given that full of vegetation, as would-be seen, She merveld to help you se the brand new tre so grene
The latest tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “I have an excellent causse so you can growe triumphantly; This new swetest dew one ever before feel sene Doth slip toward me personally and kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe this new maid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande at hande for each blowe, Of any man to own to be seen; I mervaile one thou growe very grene.”
“Even if many one need plant life out-of me personally, & manye a good branche away from my personal tre, I have such shop, they wyll not be sene, For much more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and additionally they chaunce to cut this new downe And you can carry thie braunches in to the towne? Next commonly it never not end up being sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you perform, yt ys heta Amerikansk kvinnor zero boote, Withoute they clipped me to brand new roote; Next yere againe I’m sene In order to bude my personal branches freshe and you can grene.”
“Therefore, reasonable maide, canne not do it; For yf your help you are maidhode goe, Following tend to yt never ever no longer getting sene Whenever i having my personal braunches is growe grene.”
The latest maide with that begane so you’re able to blushe, And you can became her on hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe thus faire & clene, Her bewtie styll carry out actually ever growe grene.”
With several an excellent sighe she ran her waye, To se howe she maide their unique notice so gay, To walke, to help you se, in order to be sene, An so out-experienced the newest hathorne grene
Exactly what that have she harde it glorious dowbte, She walked styll upcoming most of the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless exactly what she would wene, Their own maidheade missing couldn’t be seen.
And all that yt put their particular within the feare In order to talke that have companye anye where, Getting feare to lose the thing that shuld end up being sene To help you grow while the was this new hathorn grene.
However, after that never ever I could right here Regarding the effectuer mayden any where, One previously she was at forest sene, So you’re able to talke againe of hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
New big date associated with is about the same as L. Lloyd’s track said below. Text message from BL MS Cotton Vesp. A beneficial.twenty-five, thru K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can partial from inside the Chappell’s PMOT. Brand new big date of ballad is probably several months sooner than L. Lloyd’s song over. A timeless type gathered in place of tune, regarding 1825, try “The brand new Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. 4 in the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you will Tunes 1975. An awful conventional veresion that we think is learned of Chappell’s PMOT, try “This new Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen in the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.