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.”
“Regardless if many one take plants off myself, & manye a great branche regarding my personal tre, I’ve such as store, it wyll not be sene, For more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and additionally they chaunce to cut brand new downe And you can bring thie braunches into the towne? Then tend to they never ever not any longer getting sene To enhance againe therefore freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you would, yt ys no boote, Withoute it cut me to the latest roote; Next yere againe I will be sene So you can bude my personal branches freshe and grene.”
“And you also, fair maide, canne perhaps not do it; Getting yf your assist youre maidhode goe, Next will yt never ever not any longer be sene Whenever i that have my personal braunches is growe grene.”
This new maide with that begane in order to blushe, And you can became their own in the hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe so effectuer & clene, Their bewtie styll carry out ever before growe grene.”
With several a good sighe she ran their waye, So you’re able to se howe she maide their unique mind therefore gay, In order to walke, so you can se, also to feel sene, An thus away-experienced the new hathorne grene
Exactly what with she harde this marvelous dowbte, She strolled styll after that all of the aboute; Suspecting nevertheless exactly what she’d wene, Their particular maidheade shed would never rise above the crowd.
Along with all that yt set their in feare To help you talke having companye anye in which, For feare to shed the matter that shuld feel sene So you’re able to grow as the had been the latest hathorn grene.
But following this never ever I can right here On the faire mayden anywhere, You to definitely previously she was in tree sene, So you can talke againe of your own hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The day for the is approximately just like L. Lloyd’s track stated lower than. Text message regarding BL MS Thread Vesp. A great.twenty five, through K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will unfinished from inside the Chappell’s PMOT. This new big date on the ballad is probably period sooner than L. Lloyd’s track above. A classic version collected instead of song, regarding 1825, was “This new Hawthorn Green”, p. 4 inside the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and you will Songs 1975. A negative antique veresion that we suspect try learned out of Chappell’s PMOT, was “The fresh Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.
