At last she questioned on the tre: „Howe emerged so it freshnes unto this new?

To your Wednesday regarding mid-day We got a walk-in brand new profession, It absolutely was to take my personal curage dwon, But still I happened to be forced to give: Getting indeed there We met with an effective bobtail'd lass, But I will possess enacted their because of the, And i also kindly took their from the hands, An i direct her to the kye. The latest pettycoat one she had to the Was developed of your blanket blue, The smock was just like the black because the charcole, Trust in me it was true; But tempting terminology, tend to lure more youthful wild birds, The ones from its nest create travel, And you may I'll most likely never believ't is actually the first time You to she got become caught regarding kye. Good council, good man, I provide, For your requirements, young buck, I give, Never ever grab having an effective bob-tail'd lass So long as you've an hour or so to call home. You had beter capture one that is right and significant, Even when she end up being never ever therefore worst, Having I never ever try so disgraced inside my life While i try from this bob-tail'd whoore.

Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland from Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what became NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.thirteen f. 42.

Part step three, English Songs

It was an excellent maide of my personal countre While the she arrived by the a beneficial hathorne-tre Since laden with plant life, just like the might possibly be viewed, She merveld in order to se the brand new tre therefore grene

The tre maid answere by-and-by: „I have an excellent causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The swetest dew one previously end up being sene Doth slip on me personally and you may kepe my grene.

„Yea ,“ quothe this new maid, „however, in which thou growe, Thou stande in the hande for each and every blowe, Of any man to possess to be seen; I mervaile you to definitely thou growe thus grene.“

„Although many-one just take plants off me personally, & manye a great branche of my personal tre, I have such as for instance shop, they wyll not be sene, For much more & my personal tredges growe grene.“

„But exactly how, and they chaunce to cut the brand new downe And you can carry thie braunches inside towne? Up coming tend to they never ever not any longer getting sene To grow againe so freshe & grene.“

„Thoughe that you manage, yt ys no boote, Withoute it cut me to the newest roote; Second yere againe Im sene To help you bude my personal twigs freshe and you can grene.“

„Therefore, fair maide, canne maybe not get it done; To own yf your let you are maidhode goe, Following often yt never ever no longer getting sene As i that have my personal braunches can growe grene.“

The latest maide with this begane so you can blushe, And turned into their regarding the hathorne bushe. She thought herdelffe very faire & clene, Their own bewtie styll would actually growe grene.“

With quite a few a sighe she ran her waye, So you’re able to se howe she maide their unique notice very gay, So you can walke, so you can se, and end up being sene, An therefore out-faced the fresh hathorne grene

What that have she harde so it glorious dowbte, She moved styll after that every aboute; Suspecting however what she would wene, Their particular maidheade missing would never get noticed.

Along with all of that yt place their own in the feare So you’re able to talke having companye anye where, To have feare to get rid of the matter that shuld become sene In order to develop as was in fact new hathorn grene.

But next never I can here Of faire mayden any where, One ever before she was a student in forest sene, So you’re able to talke againe of your hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]

The newest big date of is all about just like L. Lloyd’s track stated lower than. Text message regarding BL MS Cotton Vesp. A good.twenty five, through K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. vit hane som letar efter Chilenska kvinnlig II, 1875. Expurgated and you will partial in Chappell’s PMOT. The new date from the ballad is likely several months sooner than L. Lloyd’s tune a lot more than. A timeless adaptation gathered versus song, on 1825, was „The fresh new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly“, p. 4 inside Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinctive line of Ballads and you will Music 1975. A poor antique veresion that i think are discovered off Chappell’s PMOT, try „New Hawthorn Plant“, p. fifteen when you look at the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.