Into Wednesday in the mid-day I grabbed a walk in new job, It absolutely was to carry my curage dwon, But nevertheless I found myself forced to yield: Getting indeed there We met with an effective bobtail'd lass, But I will provides enacted their particular of the, And i also kindly took her by the hand, An i lead their particular on the kye. This new pettycoat you to she got to the Was made of one's blanket bluish, The brand new smock try due to the fact black once the charcole, Trust in me this is genuine; But tempting conditions, will lure more youthful wild birds, That from the nest do travel, And I'll most likely never believ't was the very first time One to she got come stuck in the kye. A beneficial council, an effective guy, I give Asiatisk brud, To you, child, We offer, Never ever grab which have a good bob-tail'd lass Provided you've one hour to live. You'd beter capture one that is correct and significant, Whether or not she become never very worst, For I never ever is therefore disgraced within my lives As i is from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there regarding James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland away from Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the became NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.thirteen f. 42.
Part step 3, English Tunes
It absolutely was a great maide regarding my countre Because she arrived of the a good hathorne-tre Because packed with plant life, because might be seen, She merveld so you’re able to se the latest tre therefore grene
The tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “You will find an excellent causse so you can growe triumphantly; The newest swetest dew one ever before getting sene Doth slide on the me personally and kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe new housemaid, “however, where thou growe, Thou stande at hande each blowe, Of every man to own to be noticed; We mervaile one to thou growe very grene.”
“No matter if many one take vegetation from myself, & manye an effective branche out-of my personal tre, We have including store, they wyll not sene, For more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, as well as chaunce to cut the fresh new downe And hold thie braunches into the towne? Following commonly they never ever no further become sene To expand againe so freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you manage, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they slashed us to this new roote; Second yere againe Im sene So you can bude my personal twigs freshe and grene.”
“And you, fair maide, canne not take action; Getting yf your let you are maidhode goe, Up coming tend to yt never ever no more feel sene Once i with my braunches is growe grene.”
The maide thereupon begane to help you blushe, And you may turned their own on the hathorne bushe. She envision herdelffe thus effectuer & clene, Their bewtie styll manage actually growe grene.”
Exactly what having she harde so it glorious dowbte, She went styll up coming every aboute; Suspecting still what she’d wene, Their particular maidheade lost couldn’t be seen.
With quite a few an excellent sighe she ran their unique waye, So you can se howe she maide their unique notice so gay, To help you walke, to help you se, and also to become sene, An enthusiastic so aside-faced the new hathorne grene
And all of that yt lay her when you look at the feare In order to talke with companye anye in which, Getting feare to get rid of the thing that shuld getting sene To help you grow since was brand new hathorn grene.
However, following this never I could here On the faire mayden anywhere, One to actually ever she was in forest sene, So you can talke againe of hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The new big date with the is focused on just like L. Lloyd’s track mentioned less than. Text from BL MS Cotton Vesp. A.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may incomplete in Chappell’s PMOT. The newest go out regarding the ballad could be months sooner than L. Lloyd’s track a lot more than. A traditional type obtained versus track, regarding 1825, is actually “The Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro in Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinct Ballads and you may Musical 1975. A poor conventional veresion that we think are learned off Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The brand new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.
