To your Wednesday in the mid-day I took a walk-in the latest community, It absolutely was to take my curage dwon, But still I found myself obligated to give: For there We confronted with an excellent bobtail'd lass, But I should features introduced her because of the, And i also be sure to took their own because of the hands, An i lead her toward kye. The new pettycoat one she got towards the Is made of your own blanket blue, The smock try given that black as charcole, Trust me it was true; But appealing terms and conditions, often tempt more youthful birds, That from the nest carry out travel, And I'll most likely never believ't are the first time One to she got started stuck regarding kye. Good council, a good guy, I give, For you, young man, We give, Never need with an excellent bob-tail'd lass So long as you have an hour to live. You'd beter just take one that's right and you can high Gilbert, IA super hot girl, Even if she getting never therefore terrible, Having We never is actually very disgraced inside my lives Once i is actually by this bob-tail'd whoore.
Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland off Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, as to the has started to become NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.
Part step 3, English Songs
It actually was an excellent maide of my personal countre Once the she came from the a good hathorne-tre Because the packed with vegetation, since the would be viewed, She merveld so you can se this new tre very grene
This new tre maid answere by and by: “We have an excellent causse to help you growe triumphantly; The fresh swetest dew you to definitely ever before feel sene Doth slip towards me personally and you may kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest housemaid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande in the hande for every blowe, Of every people to own to be noticed; I mervaile that thou growe therefore grene.”
“Although many-one just take plants out-of me, & manye a branche off my tre, We have including shop, it wyll not sene, For much more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But how, and additionally they chaunce to reduce this new downe And you will bring thie braunches into the towne? Up coming will it never don’t end up being sene To grow againe very freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe that you manage, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they slash me to the newest roote; 2nd yere againe I am sene So you can bude my twigs freshe and you can grene.”
“And also you, fair maide, canne not do so; To possess yf you assist youre maidhode goe, Up coming often yt never not any longer become sene When i that have my personal braunches normally growe grene.”
New maide with that begane so you’re able to blushe, And became their particular in the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe thus effectuer & clene, Her bewtie styll do previously growe grene.”
With many different a beneficial sighe she ran their waye, To help you se howe she maide her notice therefore gay, To walke, so you can se, in order to end up being sene, An enthusiastic therefore aside-confronted the newest hathorne grene
Just what that have she harde this glorious dowbte, She strolled styll next the aboute; Suspecting still just what she’d wene, Their unique maidheade missing cannot be seen.
Besides all of that yt set their unique within the feare So you can talke which have companye anye in which, To possess feare to get rid of the point that shuld become sene So you can build due to the fact was in fact the brand new hathorn grene.
However, after this never ever I could right here For the faire mayden any place, That actually ever she was at tree sene, So you’re able to talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
The latest go out of the is about the same as L. Lloyd’s tune stated lower than. Text from BL MS Cotton fiber Vesp. Good.25, thru K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will unfinished in the Chappell’s PMOT. Brand new date of the ballad is probably period earlier than L. Lloyd’s song a lot more than. A vintage adaptation amassed in the place of song, regarding 1825, was “The latest Hawthorn Green”, p. 4 from inside the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinctive line of Ballads and you will Musical 1975. A negative conventional veresion which i suspect try learned from Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.