For once she asked with the tre: “Howe appeared this freshnes unto the fresh new?


For once she asked with the tre: “Howe appeared this freshnes unto the fresh new?

For the Wednesday about day We got a walk in the fresh new industry, It was to bring my curage dwon, But nevertheless I was forced to yield: To possess there I confronted by a bobtail'd lass, However, I should has passed her of the, And i be sure to took their by the hands, An i direct her with the kye. The pettycoat that she got into the Was created of your blanket bluish, New smock is once the black just like the charcole, Trust me this is correct; But enticing conditions, usually lure more youthful wild birds, Those of their colony manage travel, And you can I'll most likely never believ't was initially You to she had started caught from the kye. Good council, a beneficial guy, We provide, For you, child, We promote, Never need which have a great bob-tail'd lass So long as you've an hour or so to reside. You'd beter need one that is proper and significant, Although she become never ever thus bad, To possess We never ever are so disgraced inside my lives While i was from this bob-tail'd whoore.

From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there regarding James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland regarding Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the grew to become NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.

Point 3, English Songs

It actually was an excellent maide regarding my personal countre As she arrived from the a beneficial hathorne-tre Since laden with vegetation, because the is viewed, She merveld so you can se the latest tre very grene

The latest tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “We have a good causse to growe triumphantly; The brand new swetest dew you to ever before become sene Doth slide toward me personally and you can kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the brand new maid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande within hande for each blowe, Of every people to have to be seen; I mervaile you to thou growe so grene.”

“Even in the event many one simply take plants away from myself, & manye an excellent branche from my personal tre, We have such as for example shop, they wyll never be sene, To get more & my personal tredges growe grene.”

“But how, plus they chaunce to cut the latest downe And bring thie braunches into the towne? Following usually they never ever don’t getting sene To enhance againe therefore freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you perform, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they clipped me to the new roote; 2nd yere againe Im sene So you’re able to bude my twigs freshe and you may grene.”

“While, reasonable maide, canne not get it done; To possess yf you let youre maidhode goe, Next have a tendency to yt never not any longer end up being sene Whenever i with my personal braunches is growe grene.”

The latest maide thereupon begane so you’re able to blushe, And you can turned into her on hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe therefore faire & clene, Their particular bewtie styll carry out actually growe grene.”

With quite a few a sighe she went their particular waye, To help you se howe she maide her thinking so gay, To walke, to se, and to be sene, An very out-encountered the latest hathorne grene

Just what which have she harde which wonderful dowbte, She went styll upcoming all aboute; Suspecting nonetheless just what she would wene, Their own maidheade forgotten would never be seen.

And all of that yt put their unique when you look at the feare So you can talke having companye anye where, To have feare to lose the matter that shuld be sene To expand as the had been brand new hathorn grene.

However, following this never ever I will here Of the faire mayden anywhere, One ever she was at forest sene, In order to talke againe of hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The fresh new big date on the is focused on the same as L. Lloyd’s track mentioned below. Text off BL MS Cotton Vesp. A.25, via K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may partial in the Chappell’s PMOT. The brand new go out associated with the ballad is likely several months earlier than L. Lloyd’s track more than. A vintage adaptation gathered in the place of track, regarding the 1825, was “The newest Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. cuatro inside Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you may Audio 1975. An Shreveport, LA in USA women looking for married awful conventional veresion which i suspect is discovered out-of Chappell’s PMOT, try “The fresh Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 into the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.