For the Wednesday throughout the mid-day We got a walk-in the fresh industry, It had been to create my curage dwon, But nonetheless I became forced to yield: Getting there I exposed to an excellent bobtail'd lass, But I ought to provides passed their unique of the, And i also kindly got their because of the hand, An i head their unique towards the kye. The brand new pettycoat one she had on Was made of one's blanket bluish, The fresh smock try given that black colored once the charcole, Believe me it was true; But appealing conditions, commonly lure young birds, The ones from the nest carry out fly, And you can I'll never believ't is actually the very first time That she had already been trapped from the kye. A good council, a good man, I bring, For your requirements, young buck, I render, Never take having a good bob-tail'd lass Provided you've one hour to live on. You had beter capture one that is right and you may extreme, Regardless if she be never ever so bad, To own We never ever is thus disgraced inside my lives Whenever i is actually from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there off James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland away from Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the is NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.
Part step 3, English Musical
It was good maide from my countre As the she came by the a great hathorne-tre As packed with plant life, as is seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the fresh tre therefore grene
This new tre maid answere by and by: “We have a causse to help you growe triumphantly; The latest swetest dew you to ever getting sene Doth fall into the me personally and you can kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest housemaid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande during the hande for each and every blowe, Of every people for to be noticed; I mervaile you to definitely thou growe thus grene.”
“In the event many one simply take plant life regarding me personally, & manye an excellent branche away from my personal tre, I’ve particularly store, they wyll not be sene, For more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But how, as well as chaunce to chop the newest downe And you may carry thie braunches inside towne? Upcoming commonly they never ever no further become sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe you perform, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it slash us to the fresh roote; 2nd yere againe I will be sene In order to bude my personal branches freshe and you will grene.”
“Therefore, fair maide, canne maybe not do it; To own yf your let you are maidhode Г¦ldre kvinder, der sГёger yngre mГ¦nd efter sex goe, After that tend to yt never not any longer getting sene As i with my personal braunches can also be growe grene.”
The fresh new maide with this begane so you’re able to blushe, And you will became their unique on the hathorne bushe. She thought herdelffe therefore faire & clene, Their bewtie styll perform ever before growe grene.”
Exactly what having she harde so it wonderful dowbte, She walked styll upcoming all the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless exactly what she’d wene, Their maidheade lost cannot get noticed.
With lots of an effective sighe she went their own waye, In order to se howe she maide her self so gay, So you’re able to walke, so you’re able to se, and become sene, A keen very away-faced the hathorne grene
Besides all that yt place their own inside feare So you can talke that have companye anye where, Getting feare to shed the point that shuld be sene To build because was basically the hathorn grene.
But after this never I’m able to here Regarding the effectuer mayden anywhere, You to previously she was at forest sene, To help you talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The brand new time for the is approximately similar to L. Lloyd’s tune mentioned less than. Text of BL MS Cotton fiber Vesp. An effective.twenty-five, via K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may partial from inside the Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh new time of the ballad could be months earlier than L. Lloyd’s tune a lot more than. A timeless adaptation gathered without track, regarding 1825, are “The new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. cuatro in the Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinct Ballads and you can Sounds 1975. A terrible traditional veresion which i think are discovered off Chappell’s PMOT, is “New Hawthorn Plant”, p. 15 inside the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.