Toward Wednesday regarding the mid-day We got a walk in new profession, It was to take my curage dwon, Yet still I happened to be compelled to produce: To own there We exposed to an excellent bobtail'd lass, But I ought to keeps introduced their own from the, And that i please got their unique from the give, A we lead their own to your kye. The latest pettycoat one to she got on Was made of blanket bluish, The new smock try since black as the charcole, Trust me this is correct; However, enticing terms and conditions, will tempt young birds, Those of the nest create travel, And you will I'll never believ't try the first time One she had become stuck regarding kye. A good council, a good people, We give, To you personally, child, We give, Never ever take which have a good bob-tail'd lass As long as you've one hour to reside. You had beter need one that is right and you may high, No matter if she be never very bad, To possess We never ever are thus disgraced in my lifetime As i is by this bob-tail'd whoore.
From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland regarding Sweet Scented Flowers’, 1835, as to the is now NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.
Area step three, English Audio
It actually was an effective maide away from my countre As the she emerged of the an effective hathorne-tre Once the laden with plant life, while the could be viewed, She merveld to help you se brand new tre very grene
Brand new tre housemaid answere by and by: “I have an effective causse in order to growe triumphantly; New swetest dew that actually ever getting sene Doth fall to the me and you can kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest maid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande within hande each blowe, Of any man to have to be seen; We mervaile one thou growe thus grene.”
“Even in the event many-one simply take herbs from myself, & manye a great branche off my tre, We have such as shop, they wyll not sene, For more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But how, as well as chaunce to reduce this new downe And you will bring thie braunches in to the towne? Up coming usually it never ever not any longer end up being sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you would, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it slashed us to the roote; Next yere againe Im sene So you’re able to bude my personal twigs freshe and you may grene.”
“While, fair maide, canne not take action; For yf you let you are maidhode goe, Following tend to yt never ever don’t feel sene While i which have my personal braunches is also growe grene.”
This new maide with that begane so you can blushe, And you may became their unique on hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe thus effectuer & clene, Their particular bewtie styll carry out ever growe grene.”
Just what having she harde it glorious dowbte, She stepped styll following all the aboute; Suspecting still what she would wene, Their maidheade forgotten cannot rise above the crowd.
With lots of a sighe she ran their particular waye, To se howe she maide their unique self so gay, To walke, to se, and getting sene, A keen therefore out-confronted the fresh new hathorne grene
And all that yt lay their particular from inside the feare To help you talke having companye anye in which, For feare to shed the matter that shuld end up being sene So you can build since was basically the brand new hathorn grene.
However, next never I will here In the faire mayden anyplace, One to actually ever find Brasiliansk kvinder she was in tree sene, So you can talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
New time associated with concerns like L. Lloyd’s tune stated lower than. Text message of BL MS Cotton Vesp. A beneficial.twenty-five, thru K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can partial within the Chappell’s PMOT. The brand new go out with the ballad is probable several months earlier than L. Lloyd’s tune above. A timeless version gathered without tune, in the 1825, try “Brand new Hawthorn Green”, p. 4 when you look at the Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and Music 1975. A terrible traditional veresion that we suspect try read from Chappell’s PMOT, is “The latest Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.
