For once she requested associated with the tre: „Howe showed up this freshnes unto the new?

Into Wednesday regarding the day We grabbed a walk-in the new job, It absolutely was to bring my personal curage dwon, Yet still I happened to be obligated to produce: For indeed there We exposed to a great bobtail'd lass, But I should has actually passed her by, And that i be sure to took their by hand, A we lead their own towards kye. The latest pettycoat you to definitely she had towards the Was made of your own blanket bluish, The latest smock try because the black as charcole, Trust me this is real; However, enticing terminology, often tempt young wild birds, That from the colony perform travel, And you may I'll never believ't was the very first time One to she had become trapped about kye. An effective council, a beneficial people, I offer, For you, son, We bring, Never ever get which have an effective bob-tail'd lass Provided you one hour to live on. You had beter simply take one that's proper and you can tall, Even when she be never therefore worst, Getting I never ever are so disgraced within my lifestyle While i was by this bob-tail'd whoore.

Out-of Farmer’s ‚Merry Songs‘, and there from James Maidment’s ‚Ane Pleasant Garland from Sweet Fragrant Flowers‘, 1835, as to the grew to become NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.

Area step three, English Music

It absolutely was a beneficial maide away from my personal countre Since the she appeared by the a good hathorne-tre As the laden up with herbs, since the was seen, She merveld so you can se the fresh tre very grene

The newest tre maid answere by-and-by: „I have good causse in order to growe triumphantly; This new swetest dew that ever before end up being sene Doth slip into the me personally and you will kepe my personal grene.

„Yea ,“ quothe new maid, „however, where thou growe, Thou stande at the hande for each blowe, Of any man for to be noticed; I mervaile you to definitely thou growe so grene.“

„Regardless of if many-one take vegetation off me, & manye a beneficial branche out of my personal tre, You will find such as for example store, they wyll not sene, For lots more & my tredges growe grene.“

„But how, and additionally they chaunce to reduce the latest downe And you will hold thie braunches inside towne? Up coming commonly it never ever no longer feel sene To grow againe therefore freshe & grene.“

„Thoughe you create, yt ys no boote, Withoute it slashed me to the fresh roote; Next yere againe I am sene To help you bude my branches freshe and you may grene.“

Surprise, NE gorgeous girl

„And also you, fair maide, canne perhaps not take action; For yf your let youre maidhode goe, Then commonly yt never ever no more be sene While i with my braunches can growe grene.“

Brand new maide with that begane to help you blushe, And you will became their unique from the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe very faire & clene, Their bewtie styll would previously growe grene.“

With many an effective sighe she went their waye, So you can se howe she maide her worry about thus gay, So you’re able to walke, so you can se, and end up being sene, A keen very out-encountered the newest hathorne grene

Just what with she harde so it wonderful dowbte, She wandered styll following the aboute; Suspecting however what she would wene, Their maidheade lost cannot rise above the crowd.

As well as all of that yt set her within the feare To help you talke having companye anye where, Getting feare to get rid of the matter that shuld be sene So you can build because the were the brand new hathorn grene.

But next never I will here Of faire mayden anyplace, One to ever before she was at forest sene, To talke againe of hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The newest date in the means like L. Lloyd’s song stated less than. Text message from BL MS Cotton fiber Vesp. A good.25, through K. Boeddeker’s post ‚Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert‘, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will unfinished within the Chappell’s PMOT. The latest day with the ballad is probable months sooner than L. Lloyd’s song more than. A vintage variation compiled rather than track, about 1825, was „The brand new Hawthorn Eco-friendly“, p. cuatro within the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Line of Ballads and you can Sounds 1975. A poor conventional veresion which i suspect was read out of Chappell’s PMOT, is actually „The fresh new Hawthorn Bush“, p. 15 in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.