On the Wednesday throughout the mid-day We took a walk in the fresh new community, It absolutely was to take my personal curage dwon, But nevertheless I found myself compelled to give: To possess here We exposed to an effective bobtail'd lass, However, I will features enacted her by the, And that i kindly got their because of the hand, An i direct their particular to the kye. The pettycoat that she got for the Was made of one's blanket blue, This new smock try while the black as charcole, Trust me it was true; However, enticing terminology, tend to tempt young wild birds, That from its nest would travel, And you may I'll never believ't are initially That she got already been caught regarding kye. A beneficial council, good man, I promote, To you personally, young buck, I provide, Never ever get having an effective bob-tail'd lass Provided you have an hour or so to call home. You'd beter need one that is right and you will high, Regardless if she become never so terrible, To own We never are thus disgraced inside my life Once i try through this bob-tail'd whoore.
From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there away from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland off Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what became NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1 visit this website.thirteen f. 42.
Section step 3, English Sounds
It actually was an excellent maide of my countre Because she appeared from the a hathorne-tre Since full of herbs, as the could be seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the brand new tre so grene
New tre housemaid answere by-and-by: «We have a beneficial causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; New swetest dew that ever feel sene Doth fall toward me and kepe my grene.
«Yea ,» quothe the fresh new housemaid, «but in which thou growe, Thou stande in the hande per blowe, Of any guy to possess to be noticed; I mervaile one thou growe therefore grene.»
«Regardless if many-one just take herbs of me, & manye a great branche from my tre, You will find such as for example shop, they wyll not sene, To get more & my personal tredges growe grene.»
«But exactly how, as well as chaunce to chop this new downe And you will hold thie braunches into the towne? Upcoming usually it never no more end up being sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.»
«Thoughe you do, yt ys no boote, Withoute it reduce me to the roote; Second yere againe I am sene In order to bude my twigs freshe and grene.»
«And you, fair maide, canne perhaps not do it; To have yf your let youre maidhode goe, After that tend to yt never no further become sene When i which have my personal braunches can be growe grene.»
Brand new maide with this begane so you can blushe, And turned their own regarding the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe thus effectuer & clene, Their unique bewtie styll manage ever before growe grene.»
With several a great sighe she went their particular waye, In order to se howe she maide their particular self therefore gay, To walke, to help you se, and feel sene, An thus away-confronted brand new hathorne grene
What which have she harde which wonderful dowbte, She stepped styll following all the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless just what she’d wene, Their maidheade destroyed could not get noticed.
Besides all of that yt put their from inside the feare To talke which have companye anye where, To have feare to shed the thing that shuld getting sene To help you develop once the was basically the fresh new hathorn grene.
However, after that never ever I’m able to here In the effectuer mayden any place, You to actually she was a student in tree sene, In order to talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The new date on the concerns just like L. Lloyd’s track stated below. Text off BL MS Thread Vesp. Good.25, via K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and partial inside the Chappell’s PMOT. New day associated with ballad is probable period prior to when L. Lloyd’s track significantly more than. A vintage adaptation gathered instead of tune, regarding the 1825, try «The latest Hawthorn Environmentally friendly», p. 4 when you look at the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and Music 1975. A poor antique veresion which i think are discovered out-of Chappell’s PMOT, are «New Hawthorn Bush», p. fifteen during the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.