On the Wednesday regarding mid-day We took a walk in brand new profession, It had been to take my personal curage dwon, Yet still I became compelled to produce: To possess truth be told there We confronted with a beneficial bobtail'd lass, But I ought to keeps passed her of the, And that i be sure to took their particular of the give, A we head their to the kye. The newest pettycoat one to she had for the Is made of your own blanket blue, The latest smock is due to the fact black colored just like the charcole, Believe me this was real; However, tempting terms and conditions, tend to lure more youthful wild birds, That from its nest would travel, And I'll most likely never believ't are the first time One she got started stuck in the kye. Good council, a good people, I offer, For you, child, I give, Never ever grab that have a good bob-tail'd lass As long as you have one hour to call home. You had beter capture one that's proper and you will significant, Even if she feel never very poor, To possess I never are so disgraced in my existence When i was through this bob-tail'd whoore.
From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there regarding James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland out-of Sweet Scented Flowers’, 1835, about what happens to be NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.
Section step 3, English Tunes
It had been good maide off my countre As she emerged because of the an excellent hathorne-tre Since full of flowers, once the is seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the new tre therefore grene
The fresh new tre maid answere by-and-by: “I have an effective causse in order to growe triumphantly; Brand new swetest dew one to ever why are there so many gorgeous Roseville, OH women before become sene Doth fall for the myself and you will kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe brand new housemaid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande from the hande for every blowe, Of any people to own to be noticed; We mervaile you to definitely thou growe thus grene.”
“No matter if many-one grab herbs out-of me personally, & manye a branche out of my personal tre, I’ve instance shop, they wyll not sene, To get more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But how, plus they chaunce to reduce the new downe And you will bring thie braunches inside towne? Upcoming have a tendency to they never no longer be sene To expand againe so freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you perform, yt ys no boote, Withoute they slash me to the new roote; Second yere againe I’m sene So you’re able to bude my twigs freshe and you will grene.”
“And you also, fair maide, canne maybe not exercise; Getting yf your help you are maidhode goe, Following often yt never no further getting sene Once i which have my braunches can also be growe grene.”
The fresh new maide with this begane to help you blushe, And you will turned into their own on hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe very faire & clene, Their particular bewtie styll would ever before growe grene.”
With lots of a great sighe she went their own waye, So you can se howe she maide their worry about therefore gay, So you can walke, to help you se, in order to become sene, An enthusiastic so out-experienced the new hathorne grene
What with she harde that it marvelous dowbte, She went styll following every aboute; Suspecting still just what she’d wene, Their maidheade missing couldn’t be seen.
Besides all that yt set their inside the feare To help you talke that have companye anye in which, To have feare to get rid of the matter that shuld become sene To help you expand given that had been the latest hathorn grene.
But following this never ever I can right here With the faire mayden any where, That previously she was a student in tree sene, To talke againe of your own hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
New date in the is mostly about exactly like L. Lloyd’s track stated lower than. Text away from BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. Good.twenty five, thru K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can incomplete in Chappell’s PMOT. The newest day with the ballad is probably months earlier than L. Lloyd’s track a lot more than. A timeless type compiled in the place of tune, regarding the 1825, are “The brand new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. 4 for the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinctive line of Ballads and you may Music 1975. A poor antique veresion that we suspect try learned of Chappell’s PMOT, is “This new Hawthorn Plant”, p. 15 from inside the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.