On Wednesday about afternoon I took a walk-in the latest field, It actually was to bring my curage dwon, But still I happened to be compelled to give: To have truth be told there We confronted by a bobtail'd lass, However, I will possess introduced their particular because of the, And i also please got her of the give, A we direct their unique toward kye. The fresh pettycoat you to definitely she got towards the Is made of blanket bluish, Brand new smock try as the black colored since charcole, Trust me this was real; But enticing terms, have a tendency to lure younger wild birds, That from the nest perform fly, And you can I'll never believ't is actually initially You to she got started trapped regarding kye. A great council, a guy, We give, For your requirements, young man, I offer, Never simply take with a great bob-tail'd lass For as long as you've an hour or so to reside. You'd beter grab one that's correct and high, Regardless if she getting never ever very bad, To own We never ever try so disgraced in my own lifestyle When i try through this bob-tail'd whoore.
Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland away from Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, from what happens to be NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.
Point 3, English Musical
It was a good maide out of my countre Because she arrived of the a great hathorne-tre As the loaded with flowers, just like the could well be viewed, She merveld to se the newest tre therefore grene
The brand new tre maid answere by and by: “I have a great causse so you can growe triumphantly; The new swetest dew one to actually be sene Doth slide on me personally and you can kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe new housemaid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande on hande for every blowe, Of every guy to have to be noticed; I mervaile one to thou growe very grene.”
“Regardless if many-one simply take plants off me personally, & manye a beneficial branche off my personal tre, You will find such as for example shop, it wyll never be sene, For more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and so they chaunce to chop the new downe And you can carry thie braunches into the towne? After that often it never not getting sene To expand againe therefore freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you carry out, yt ys no boote, Withoute they reduce me to the new roote; Second yere againe I will be sene So you can bude my twigs freshe and you may grene.”
“Therefore, fair maide, gratis europ?¦iske postordre brudesider canne maybe not get it done; Having yf your assist youre maidhode goe, After that usually yt never ever not any longer getting sene When i having my braunches can also be growe grene.”
The latest maide with that begane to blushe, And you will turned into their particular on hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe therefore effectuer & clene, Their own bewtie styll do actually growe grene.”
Just what that have she harde which wonderful dowbte, She went styll following all aboute; Suspecting nevertheless exactly what she would wene, Her maidheade lost could not get noticed.
With quite a few an excellent sighe she went their particular waye, To se howe she maide their self very gay, So you’re able to walke, so you’re able to se, and also to getting sene, An so away-faced the new hathorne grene
Besides all of that yt put their own in feare In order to talke that have companye anye in which, To own feare to reduce the point that shuld feel sene So you’re able to expand because was in fact brand new hathorn grene.
However, next never ever I will here Of the effectuer mayden anywhere, You to actually ever she was in tree sene, To talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The fresh new date with the means exactly like L. Lloyd’s track mentioned less than. Text away from BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A.twenty five, thru K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and unfinished in Chappell’s PMOT. This new go out for the ballad is probable months sooner than L. Lloyd’s track significantly more than. A vintage adaptation collected versus tune, about 1825, are “The latest Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro within the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and Audio 1975. An awful traditional veresion that i suspect try discovered away from Chappell’s PMOT, try “This new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen inside Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.