To the Wednesday on mid-day We took a walk-in brand new community, It absolutely was to bring my curage dwon, But nevertheless I found myself obligated to produce: Having there I met with a great bobtail'd lass, But I should features introduced their unique from the, And i be sure to got their own by the hand, A we lead her for the kye. New pettycoat you to she got for the Is made of blanket bluish, The fresh smock is once the black colored since charcole, Believe me this was genuine; However, tempting terms, often lure younger birds, That from their nest do travel, And you can I'll most likely never believ't are the first occasion One to she got started stuck on the kye. A great council, a guy, We provide, To you, son, We provide, Never ever get which have an effective bob-tail'd lass As long as you an hour or so to live on. You'd beter just take one that's right and you will tall, In the event she end up being never ever therefore poor, To have I never ever are so disgraced within my lives Once i are by this bob-tail'd whoore.
From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there off James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland out of Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the is becoming NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.thirteen f. 42.
Area 3, English Music
It actually was a maide out of my personal countre Just like the she appeared by a beneficial hathorne-tre As packed with herbs, while the would be seen, She merveld to se the fresh tre thus grene
The brand new tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “We have good causse so you can growe triumphantly; The new swetest dew you to actually end up being sene Doth slide on the me and you will kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe this new housemaid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande during the hande for each blowe, Of every man to own to be seen; tryk pГҐ dette link her nu We mervaile you to definitely thou growe so grene.”
“Regardless of if many-one need herbs out-of me personally, & manye good branche of my tre, I’ve for example store, they wyll never be sene, To get more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But how, as well as chaunce to chop new downe And you can hold thie braunches to the towne? Next commonly they never ever no more getting sene To expand againe therefore freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe that you manage, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it slash me to the newest roote; Second yere againe I will be sene So you’re able to bude my branches freshe and you can grene.”
“And you also, fair maide, canne perhaps not get it done; To own yf your help youre maidhode goe, Next commonly yt never ever no more become sene Whenever i that have my braunches can be growe grene.”
The latest maide with this begane so you can blushe, And you can became their unique about hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe very effectuer & clene, Their particular bewtie styll create previously growe grene.”
Just what that have she harde that it wonderful dowbte, She wandered styll up coming the aboute; Suspecting nonetheless exactly what she would wene, Their unique maidheade shed could not rise above the crowd.
With many a beneficial sighe she ran their unique waye, So you can se howe she maide their notice therefore gay, To walke, to help you se, in order to end up being sene, A keen very aside-encountered new hathorne grene
Besides all that yt put her into the feare To talke that have companye anye where, To own feare to reduce the thing that shuld feel sene In order to grow since the were the hathorn grene.
But following this never ever I can here Associated with the faire mayden anyplace, One actually she was a student in tree sene, To talke againe of hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The latest day in the is focused on exactly like L. Lloyd’s song stated below. Text regarding BL MS Thread Vesp. A.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may incomplete inside Chappell’s PMOT. The latest time from the ballad could be months earlier than L. Lloyd’s track above. A timeless adaptation built-up as opposed to tune, from the 1825, is “The fresh new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. 4 during the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinctive line of Ballads and you will Audio 1975. A terrible antique veresion which i believe is read away from Chappell’s PMOT, are “The new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 into the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.