To your Wednesday on the afternoon We got a walk-in brand new profession, It was to bring my curage dwon, But nonetheless I became forced to produce: Getting around We confronted by a beneficial bobtail'd lass, However, I ought to has actually passed their unique by, And that i kindly grabbed their unique by the give, An i head her to your kye. The brand new pettycoat one she had into the Was made of blanket bluish, The fresh smock was given that black colored because charcole, Trust me it was real; But appealing conditions, often lure younger wild birds, That from the colony manage fly, And you can I'll most likely never believ't is actually the first time One she had become trapped in the kye. An excellent council, a good guy, I promote, To you personally, child, I render, Never ever bring with good bob-tail'd lass Provided you've one hour to reside. You had beter capture one that's best and you will extreme, Though she feel never ever therefore worst, Having We never are very disgraced in my existence Whenever i was through this bob-tail'd whoore.
Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there regarding bГ¤sta internationella datingsida James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland off Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, from what is actually NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.
Section step three, English Tunes
It had been a great maide from my personal countre While the she emerged from the a great hathorne-tre While the packed with plant life, since would-be seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the fresh new tre so grene
The fresh new tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “I have an effective causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The fresh new swetest dew one actually end up being sene Doth slip for the myself and you can kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the newest housemaid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande on hande per blowe, Of any man to possess to be noticed; I mervaile you to definitely thou growe so grene.”
“Even when many-one simply take flowers out of me personally, & manye a beneficial branche away from my personal tre, I have particularly store, they wyll not be sene, For lots more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But how, and they chaunce to chop the brand new downe And carry thie braunches to the towne? Next often it never ever no further getting sene To expand againe very freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe you create, yt ys no boote, Withoute they clipped me to new roote; Second yere againe I’m sene To bude my twigs freshe and you will grene.”
“While, fair maide, canne not get it done; To own yf you help youre maidhode goe, Upcoming often yt never no further end up being sene Whenever i which have my personal braunches normally growe grene.”
Brand new maide thereupon begane in order to blushe, And you may turned into their unique from the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe thus faire & clene, Their particular bewtie styll do ever growe grene.”
With several good sighe she went their unique waye, To se howe she maide their notice so gay, To walke, to se, in order to end up being sene, An so away-experienced the latest hathorne grene
Exactly what which have she harde so it glorious dowbte, She strolled styll upcoming most of the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless just what she would wene, Their unique maidheade shed cannot get noticed.
Besides all of that yt place their own in feare So you can talke which have companye anye in which, For feare to get rid of the matter that shuld getting sene To build while the had been new hathorn grene.
However, after that never I could right here From the effectuer mayden anywhere, That ever she was in tree sene, So you’re able to talke againe of one’s hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The latest date in the means like L. Lloyd’s track stated less than. Text message out of BL MS Cotton Vesp. A beneficial.25, thru K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may incomplete inside the Chappell’s PMOT. The latest big date from the ballad is probable period prior to when L. Lloyd’s song over. A classic adaptation accumulated versus song, from the 1825, was “The newest Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. 4 into the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you may Audio 1975. An awful antique veresion that we think is discovered away from Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The fresh new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 during the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.
