Towards the Wednesday on day We grabbed a walk in this new industry, It absolutely was to bring my personal curage dwon, But nevertheless I happened to be obligated to give: For indeed there We exposed to a great bobtail'd lass, But I should enjoys enacted their own of the, And that i kindly took their particular by the give, An i direct their into the kye. The latest pettycoat one to she got to your Is made of the blanket blue, The fresh smock try given that black colored due to the fact charcole, Trust in me it was genuine; However, tempting terms, have a tendency to lure younger birds, Those of the nest do travel, And you can I'll most likely never believ't try the very first time You to she had already been caught on kye. A beneficial council, a man, I give, To you, son, We promote, Never ever just take with an effective bob-tail'd lass As long as you an hour or so to reside. You had beter bring one that is correct and significant, Regardless of if she feel never ever therefore terrible, To possess We never try thus disgraced in my own lifetime Whenever i was by this bob-tail'd whoore.

Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there regarding James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland out of Sweet Scented Flowers’, 1835, about what is actually NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.thirteen f. 42.

Point 3, English Songs

It was a maide away from my countre As the she showed up from the an excellent hathorne-tre Given that laden with vegetation, as the could well be viewed, She merveld so you’re able to se brand new tre therefore grene

Brand new tre housemaid answere by and by: “I’ve a great causse to growe triumphantly; Brand new swetest dew that ever before getting sene Doth slide to your me personally and you can kepe my grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the brand new housemaid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande during the hande for each and every blowe, Of every guy having to be noticed; I mervaile you to thou growe so grene.”

“Even if many one take herbs of me personally, & manye a beneficial branche of my personal tre, You will find such as for instance store, it wyll not be sene, For lots more & my personal tredges growe grene.”

“But how, in addition they chaunce to chop this new downe And bring thie braunches inside towne? Upcoming commonly it never no more be sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe that you perform, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they clipped us to the new roote; hans svar Next yere againe I will be sene So you can bude my personal branches freshe and you can grene.”

“Therefore, fair maide, canne not do it; Getting yf your assist you are maidhode goe, After that have a tendency to yt never no more getting sene As i which have my braunches can also be growe grene.”

This new maide thereupon begane to blushe, And you can turned their on hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe thus faire & clene, Their particular bewtie styll perform actually growe grene.”

Exactly what having she harde it marvelous dowbte, She moved styll up coming all of the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless what she would wene, Their unique maidheade forgotten could not rise above the crowd.

With lots of good sighe she ran their particular waye, In order to se howe she maide her thinking very gay, To help you walke, so you can se, in order to be sene, A keen therefore aside-faced new hathorne grene

In addition to all of that yt put their in feare So you’re able to talke having companye anye where, To own feare to shed the point that shuld end up being sene So you can develop given that was the fresh hathorn grene.

However, next never ever I could right here Associated with faire mayden any where, You to definitely ever she was at forest sene, In order to talke againe of your own hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]

The newest go out with the means similar to L. Lloyd’s tune stated below. Text message out of BL MS Cotton Vesp. An effective.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can incomplete inside Chappell’s PMOT. The new go out with the ballad is probably months sooner than L. Lloyd’s track more than. A timeless version collected instead of song, on 1825, try “Brand new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. 4 into the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you may Tunes 1975. An awful conventional veresion that we believe try read out of Chappell’s PMOT, was “This new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen inside Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.