On Wednesday regarding the afternoon We took a walk in the new occupation, It absolutely was to create my curage dwon, But nonetheless I became compelled to give: For around I confronted with an excellent bobtail'd lass, But I ought to has passed their own by, And that i please got their unique by the give, A we direct their unique into the kye. The newest pettycoat that she had toward Is made of your own blanket blue, The fresh new smock was given that black as the charcole, Trust in me this is real; However, enticing terms and conditions, usually tempt young birds, Those of their nest would travel, And I'll never believ't is actually initially One to she got been trapped in the kye. An excellent council, a great guy, We offer, To you personally, young man, We offer, Never bring which have good bob-tail'd lass So long as you've one hour to reside. You'd beter simply take one that's proper and you may extreme, In the event she getting never so worst, For We never was so disgraced in my life As i is actually from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland out of Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, from what is now NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.
Part step 3, English Tunes
It was a good maide away from my personal countre Since the she appeared of the a great hathorne-tre Because full of plant life, as might possibly be viewed, She merveld to se the fresh new tre very grene
Brand new tre housemaid answere by-and-by: «We have a great causse in order to growe triumphantly; The fresh swetest dew one to ever before feel sene Doth slide for the me personally and you may kepe my personal grene.
«Yea ,» quothe this new housemaid, «but in which thou growe, Thou stande within hande for each and every blowe, Of every guy to own to be noticed; I mervaile one thou growe thus grene.»
«Although many one grab plants off myself, & manye a good branche out-of my tre, You will find such as for example store, it wyll not be sene, For lots more & my personal tredges growe grene.»
«But exactly how, and they chaunce to slice the downe And carry thie braunches in to the towne? Then usually they never no longer feel sene To expand againe very freshe & grene.»
«Thoughe which you would, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it cut me to the new roote; 2nd yere againe Im sene In order to bude my personal twigs freshe and you can grene.»
«While, fair maide, canne maybe not do it; Getting yf your let you are maidhode goe, Then will yt never ever no more getting sene When i with my braunches can growe grene.»
Brand new maide with that begane so you’re able to blushe, And you can turned into their own regarding the hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe thus faire & clene, Her bewtie styll manage ever before growe grene.»
What that have she harde so it wonderful dowbte, She wandered styll after that every aboute; Suspecting still what she would wene, Their own maidheade shed couldn’t get noticed.
With quite a few an effective sighe she went their particular waye, To se howe she maide their particular worry about very gay, In order to walke, to help you se, in order to feel sene, A keen therefore away-faced the fresh hathorne grene
In addition to all of that yt lay their own into the feare In order to talke that have companye anye in which, Having feare to lose the point that shuld feel sene So you’re able to develop as the have been the fresh new hathorn grene.
But after this never I can here Of this faire mayden anyplace, One to actually ever she was a student in forest sene, So you’re able to talke againe of your own hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The big date of means like L. Lloyd’s tune mentioned lower than. Text message regarding BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. An excellent.twenty five, thru 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 you may partial when you look at the Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh time with the ballad could be period sooner than L. Lloyd’s track a lot more than. A traditional type obtained in place of song, on the 1825, is «The newest Hawthorn Green», p. 4 into the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and you can Musical 1975. A terrible old-fashioned veresion that we think are read from Chappell’s PMOT, is actually «Brand new Hawthorn Bush», p. fifteen for the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.