Towards Wednesday from the afternoon I got a walk in the new career, It was to create my curage dwon, But still I found myself compelled to give: Having here I confronted by a good bobtail'd lass, But I ought to keeps passed their own of the, And that i kindly grabbed their unique because of the hand, An i head her towards kye. The latest pettycoat one she got into the Was created of blanket blue, This new smock is actually due to the fact black colored since the charcole, Trust in me this is genuine; But appealing terms, will lure young birds, That from their nest manage travel, And you will I'll never believ't are the first time You to she had come stuck on kye. An excellent council, a beneficial man, We provide, To you, son, We give, Never grab having a great bob-tail'd lass So long as you have one hour to call home. You'd beter simply take one that is right and you will tall, Regardless if she end up being never ever very poor, To own We never is very disgraced in my own lifetime Once i is from this bob-tail'd whoore.

From Farmer’s os borger, der gifter sig med udlГ¦nding i udlandet ‘Merry Songs’, and there off James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland off Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, as to what has become NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.

Section step three, English Music

It actually was a beneficial maide off my countre Because she came because of the a beneficial hathorne-tre Due to the fact packed with vegetation, while the would-be viewed, She merveld to se the fresh tre so grene

The fresh new tre housemaid answere by and by: “We have good causse to help you growe triumphantly; The brand new swetest dew that actually ever become sene Doth fall into me and kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the fresh new maid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande in the hande for each and every blowe, Of every guy for to be seen; We mervaile one to thou growe very grene.”

“Whether or not many-one grab vegetation off me, & manye a good branche from my tre, I’ve for example store, they wyll not be sene, To get more & my tredges growe grene.”

“But exactly how, plus they chaunce to chop the newest downe And bring thie braunches in to the towne? Then usually it never ever no further end up being sene To enhance againe therefore freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe that you do, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it slashed us to the fresh roote; Second yere againe I will be sene So you’re able to bude my twigs freshe and grene.”

“While, fair maide, canne maybe not do it; To have yf you let youre maidhode goe, Following often yt never ever not any longer feel sene As i having my personal braunches can also be growe grene.”

The brand new maide with this begane so you can blushe, And you can became their particular throughout the hathorne bushe. She envision herdelffe so faire & clene, Their bewtie styll do previously growe grene.”

What which have she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She strolled styll next the aboute; Suspecting nonetheless just what she’d wene, Their particular maidheade lost would never rise above the crowd.

With several a beneficial sighe she ran their own waye, To help you se howe she maide their own notice thus gay, In order to walke, so you can se, and getting sene, A keen thus away-encountered the new hathorne grene

And all of that yt put their unique inside feare So you can talke having companye anye in which, Getting feare to lose the matter that shuld end up being sene In order to build as the was the fresh hathorn grene.

But after that never ever I am able to right here Regarding the faire mayden anyplace, One actually she was in forest sene, So you’re able to talke againe of your own hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]

The big date on the means like L. Lloyd’s track stated below. Text message off BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A.25, through K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and unfinished inside the Chappell’s PMOT. The newest big date associated with ballad is likely several months sooner than L. Lloyd’s tune above. A classic type gathered instead tune, throughout the 1825, is “The new Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. cuatro for the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you can Music 1975. A bad conventional veresion which i believe is actually discovered away from Chappell’s PMOT, is “The Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.