Towards the Wednesday regarding the day I got a walk-in brand new community, It was to bring my personal curage dwon, Yet still I happened to be forced to give: For here We confronted by a great bobtail'd lass, However, I will provides passed their own by the, And i also please got their because of the hand, A we direct their own into kye. New pettycoat you to she had into the Was created of one's blanket bluish, The new smock try since black due to the fact charcole, Believe me it was genuine; However, tempting conditions, often tempt younger wild birds, The ones from their nest carry out travel, And I'll most likely never believ't try the first time You to she got started caught regarding the kye. Good council, a beneficial man, We give, To you, young buck, I provide, Never need having good bob-tail'd lass For as long as you an hour to reside. You had beter get one that is correct and you may tall, Even though she become never ever so bad, To possess I never ever are so disgraced in my lifetime As i is actually from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Out of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland out-of Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, about what is becoming NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.
Part 3, English Sounds
It was an excellent maide out of my countre Since the she emerged because of the a great hathorne-tre Just like the packed with flowers, because was seen, She merveld so you’re able to se this new tre thus grene
The latest tre maid answere by and by: “I have a great causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The swetest dew one ever be sene Doth slip towards myself and you will kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest maid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande on hande for each and every blowe, Of every man to have to be noticed; I mervaile that thou growe thus grene.”
