Into Wednesday on afternoon We got a walk in brand new field, It had been to bring my personal curage dwon, Yet still I found myself forced to produce: To have there We confronted by good bobtail'd lass, But I ought to have introduced her from the, And that i be sure to got their particular of the hands, An i lead their particular into kye. The pettycoat one she got for the Was developed of blanket bluish, The fresh smock try since black colored because charcole, Trust me this was genuine; However, appealing words, usually tempt younger wild birds, That from the nest do fly, And you can I'll never believ't is initially One to she got been stuck regarding the kye. A good council, a great man, We promote, To you, young man, I bring, Never grab which have good bob-tail'd lass As long as you an hour to call home. You had beter get one that is best and you may tall, Regardless if she become never ever so poor, To have I never ever is thus disgraced in my life While i is actually from this bob-tail'd whoore.
From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there away from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland from Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what has grown to become NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.
Area 3, English Sounds
It absolutely was an effective maide off my personal countre Due to the fact she came because of the an excellent hathorne-tre Just like the laden up with plants, since the is seen, She merveld to se the latest tre very grene
The newest tre housemaid answere by and by: “I have a great causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The brand new swetest dew one to ever feel sene Doth slip on the myself and kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest housemaid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande during the hande per blowe, Of every guy for to be noticed; I mervaile one to thou growe very grene.”
“Regardless of if many-one take flowers regarding myself, & manye a great branche of my personal tre, We have particularly shop, it wyll not be sene, To get more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and they chaunce to cut the new downe And you may bring thie braunches in to the towne? Following often it never no more end up being sene To enhance againe so freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you create, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they slashed us to brand new roote; 2nd yere againe I am sene In order to bude my branches freshe and you will grene.”
“Therefore, fair maide, canne not take action; To own yf you assist you are maidhode goe, Following usually yt never ever no longer end up being sene Whenever i which have my personal braunches can be growe grene.”
Brand new maide with that begane so you’re able to blushe, And you will turned into their own throughout the hathorne bushe. She consider herdelffe so effectuer & clene, Her bewtie styll carry out ever growe grene.”
Exactly what which have she harde this glorious dowbte, She strolled styll after that every aboute; Suspecting nonetheless just what she would wene, Their maidheade missing cannot rise above the crowd.
With quite a few a sighe she went their waye, To help you se howe she maide her thinking very gay, So you’re able to walke, so you’re able to se, and to be sene, An so aside-confronted the newest hathorne grene
Besides all of that yt put their in feare So you can talke having companye anye where, To own feare to shed the matter that shuld be sene So you can build just like the were the fresh new hathorn grene.
However, after this never I could here Of the effectuer mayden any where, One to ever she was in tree sene, So you can talke againe of your own hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The fresh new big date for the is approximately like L. Lloyd’s track mentioned less than. Text message regarding BL MS Cotton Vesp. A beneficial.25, through K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and partial within the Chappell’s PMOT. The latest big date of the ballad is probable months earlier than L. Lloyd’s song above. A traditional adaptation built-up rather than tune, in the 1825, are “The fresh new Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. cuatro inside the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Line of Ballads and Music 1975. A bad conventional veresion which i think is learned of Chappell’s PMOT, are “The Hawthorn Plant”, p. 15 inside Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.
