Towards the Wednesday on the mid-day We grabbed a walk-in the job, It was to bring my personal curage dwon, But still I happened to be obligated to produce: Having truth be told there We confronted with a great bobtail'd lass, But I should has passed their by, And that i kindly got her from the give, A we head their particular with the kye. The latest pettycoat one to she got for the Was created of the blanket blue, The new smock is as black due to the fact charcole, Trust in me this is genuine; However, appealing words, have a tendency to lure more youthful wild birds, That from its colony perform fly, And you will I'll most likely never believ't are initially You to definitely she had already been stuck in the kye. A good council, a beneficial man, I give, To you, child, I offer, Never ever grab with a beneficial bob-tail'd lass For as long as you've an hour to live. You'd beter need one that's best and you may extreme, Regardless of if she be never ever therefore poor, For We never are thus disgraced within my lifetime Whenever i is actually by this bob-tail'd whoore.
Off Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there out of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland regarding Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what is actually NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.
Area step 3, English Musical
It absolutely was a maide of my countre Once the she arrived because of the a great hathorne-tre As full of plants, since might be seen, She merveld in order to se the fresh new tre thus grene
The fresh new tre maid answere by-and-by: “You will find an effective causse to help you growe triumphantly; The newest swetest dew that previously be sene Doth slide to your myself and kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe new maid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande at the hande for every single blowe, Of every man to have to be seen; I mervaile one thou growe therefore grene.”
“Whether or not many one need plants out of me personally, & manye a good branche from my tre, You will find such as for instance shop, it wyll not sene, To get more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But how, in addition they chaunce to slice the latest downe And you can bring thie braunches to the towne? After that usually it never don’t be sene To grow againe therefore freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you would, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they slashed me to the new roote; Second yere againe I’m sene In order to bude my personal twigs freshe and you will grene.”
“And also you, fair maide, canne maybe not get it done; To possess yf you help you are maidhode goe, Then tend to yt never not any longer feel sene Once i with my personal braunches can also be growe grene.”
The fresh new maide with that begane so you’re able to blushe, And you will became their unique in the hathorne bushe. She thought herdelffe thus effectuer & clene, Their bewtie styll carry out ever before growe grene.”
Just what with she harde so it glorious dowbte, She wandered styll next all aboute; Suspecting nevertheless what she’d wene, Her maidheade shed couldn’t rise above the crowd.
With several a good sighe she ran their own waye, To se howe she maide their own worry about therefore gay, To help you walke, to help you se, and to be sene, An enthusiastic very out-confronted the latest hathorne grene
In addition to all that yt set their particular for the feare So you can talke having companye anye where, Having feare to lose the point that shuld be sene To grow because was in fact the brand new hathorn grene.
However, after that never ever I am able to right here For the faire mayden anywhere, That ever she was in tree sene, To help you talke againe of your own hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
New day regarding the is all about like L. Lloyd’s tune said below. Text message away from BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will unfinished from inside the Chappell’s PMOT. This new day from the ballad is probable period sooner than L. Lloyd’s song significantly more than. A traditional version gathered instead of tune, about 1825, are “The newest Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. 4 in the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you may Music 1975. An awful old-fashioned veresion which i believe was discovered out of Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The fresh new Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen into the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.