Towards Wednesday about day I took a walk-in the profession, It absolutely was to take my curage dwon, But nonetheless I became obligated to produce: To possess around We met with an effective bobtail'd lass, However, I will keeps enacted her from the, And i be sure to got their own of the hands, An i head their own towards the kye. The pettycoat you to definitely she had to the Is made of your own blanket sexy Cleveland, GA girl bluish, New smock is once the black once the charcole, Trust me it was genuine; But enticing words, often lure younger birds, That from their nest perform fly, And you will I'll most likely never believ't was the first occasion One she had come caught regarding kye. A good council, good people, I give, To you, young man, We give, Never get that have an effective bob-tail'd lass For as long as you an hour to reside. You'd beter just take one that's proper and significant, In the event she be never thus poor, Getting We never ever is actually very disgraced in my own lifestyle Once i try through this bob-tail'd whoore.
Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there out of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Pleasant Garland away from Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the is actually NLS MS Adv. 19.1.13 f. 42.
Point step three, English Sounds
It was a good maide out-of my countre While the she arrived because of the good hathorne-tre As the laden up with flowers, since could be viewed, She merveld to help you se the tre therefore grene
The tre housemaid answere by and by: “You will find an effective causse to growe triumphantly; This new swetest dew one ever be sene Doth fall on me and you can kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the brand new maid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande on hande per blowe, Of every guy to own to be seen; I mervaile you to definitely thou growe so grene.”
“In the event many-one grab flowers off me personally, & manye a great branche out of my personal tre, We have for example shop, it wyll not sene, For more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But how, as well as chaunce to slice new downe And you may carry thie braunches to the towne? After that will they never ever no more end up being sene To enhance againe very freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you perform, yt ys no boote, Withoute they reduce us to the newest roote; Second yere againe Im sene So you can bude my twigs freshe and you may grene.”
“And you, reasonable maide, canne perhaps not get it done; To own yf you help youre maidhode goe, Following usually yt never ever not any longer end up being sene Whenever i with my personal braunches normally growe grene.”
The new maide with this begane so you can blushe, And you can turned their own on the hathorne bushe. She consider herdelffe very effectuer & clene, Their bewtie styll manage ever growe grene.”
With quite a few a sighe she ran her waye, So you’re able to se howe she maide their thinking therefore gay, To help you walke, so you can se, and end up being sene, An enthusiastic very aside-confronted the new hathorne grene
Just what with she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She walked styll then all the aboute; Suspecting however exactly what she would wene, Their own maidheade destroyed would never rise above the crowd.
Along with all that yt set her within the feare To help you talke with companye anye in which, To own feare to get rid of the point that shuld become sene In order to develop just like the was indeed the hathorn grene.
However, after this never ever I could here In the faire mayden anyplace, You to actually ever she was in tree sene, In order to talke againe of your own hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]
This new go out associated with the concerns the same as L. Lloyd’s track stated below. Text out of BL MS Cotton fiber Vesp. A great.25, through K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will unfinished inside Chappell’s PMOT. Brand new time with the ballad is probable months earlier than L. Lloyd’s tune over. A vintage type compiled versus track, in the 1825, is “The fresh new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. 4 in E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Line of Ballads and you may Sounds 1975. An awful conventional veresion which i suspect is read regarding Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The fresh new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 during the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.