To your Wednesday regarding the afternoon We took a walk-in the profession, It had been to create my curage dwon, But nevertheless I happened to be forced to give: Getting there We confronted by good bobtail'd lass, But I ought to features passed her by, And that i please got their unique of the hands, An i direct their own on the kye. Brand new pettycoat one to she had on the Was created of the blanket blue, The new smock is as black as charcole, Trust me this was genuine; However, tempting terminology, usually lure younger birds, That from its colony manage travel, And you will I'll never believ't is the very first time That she got been stuck on kye. An excellent council, a good guy, I render, For you, child, We bring, Never ever simply take that have a great bob-tail'd lass So long as you've an hour or so to call home. You'd beter take one that's proper and you can high, Although she feel never ever very bad, To possess I never is so disgraced in my life When i is actually by this bob-tail'd whoore.
Of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland of Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, from what is NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.
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It was an excellent maide from my countre Once the she arrived because of the an excellent hathorne-tre Given that laden with flowers, as might be seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the newest tre very grene
The tre maid answere by and by: “I’ve an excellent causse to growe triumphantly; The latest swetest dew one ever feel sene Doth slip into myself and you can kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe this new maid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande within hande for every single blowe, Of any man to have to be seen; We mervaile that thou growe therefore grene.”
“In the event many one just take plant life out of me, & manye a great branche of my tre, I have such as for instance store, they wyll not sene, For lots more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and additionally they chaunce to cut the latest downe And you can carry thie braunches to the towne? After that tend to it never ever not any longer end up being sene To expand againe therefore freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe you create, yt ys no boote, Withoute they clipped me to brand new roote; 2nd yere againe Im sene So you’re able to bude my twigs freshe and you can grene.”
“And also you, reasonable maide, canne not get it done; To possess yf your help youre maidhode goe, After that often yt never don’t feel sene Once i which have my personal braunches can also meet asian women be growe grene.”
This new maide with that begane so you can blushe, And became her regarding the hathorne bushe. She envision herdelffe thus faire & clene, Their unique bewtie styll do actually growe grene.”
With quite a few a beneficial sighe she went their particular waye, To help you se howe she maide their particular mind very gay, To walke, to help you se, in order to feel sene, An enthusiastic so aside-faced the new hathorne grene
What with she harde this glorious dowbte, She went styll after that the aboute; Suspecting still what she would wene, Her maidheade missing couldn’t be seen.
And all of that yt put their own during the feare So you can talke with companye anye where, To have feare to get rid of the matter that shuld end up being sene In order to grow because the was in fact the latest hathorn grene.
But next never ever I can here Of the faire mayden anywhere, That ever she was at forest sene, To talke againe of the hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
New date associated with the concerns just like L. Lloyd’s tune said below. Text regarding BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A.twenty five, thru K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and partial for the Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh day associated with the ballad could be months sooner than L. Lloyd’s song above. A traditional variation collected without tune, regarding 1825, was “This new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. cuatro during the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you will Sounds 1975. A negative old-fashioned veresion that i think was read from Chappell’s PMOT, was “The fresh new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 into the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.