On Wednesday in the mid-day I grabbed a walk-in the fresh new job, It actually was to create my curage dwon, Yet still I happened to be forced to produce: Getting here We confronted by an excellent bobtail'd lass, However, I should has enacted their by the, And i also kindly took their particular of the hand, A we lead their on the kye. The fresh new pettycoat one she had to your Was developed of your own blanket bluish, The smock try since black colored just like the charcole, Believe me it was real; But enticing words, have a tendency to lure younger wild birds, Those of the nest do travel, And you may I'll most likely never believ't is actually the first time One she had become caught throughout the kye. Good council, a good people, We offer, To you, son, We give, Never take with an effective bob-tail'd lass Provided you an hour or so to call home. You had beter take one that's correct and you will significant, Regardless if she feel never therefore bad, To possess I never ever was so disgraced inside my lives As i are by this bob-tail'd whoore.
Away from Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there out of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland off Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, to what became NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.
Part step 3, English Sounds
It absolutely was good maide of my countre Due to the fact she arrived by an excellent hathorne-tre Given that packed with vegetation, once the was viewed, She merveld to help you se the newest tre therefore grene
The fresh new tre housemaid answere by and by: “I have a beneficial causse in order to growe triumphantly; New swetest dew one previously become sene Doth fall on the me and kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe brand new maid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande in the hande for every single blowe, Of every guy to possess to be noticed; I mervaile one thou growe therefore grene.”
“In the event many one simply take flowers off myself, & manye a beneficial branche out-of my personal tre, We have particularly shop, they wyll not sene, For lots more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, plus they chaunce to reduce the latest downe And you may bring thie braunches into the towne? After that will it never ever not any longer end up being sene To expand againe so freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe which you do, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it slashed us to the new roote; 2nd yere againe I’m sene So you’re able to bude my personal twigs freshe and you may grene.”
“Therefore, reasonable maide, canne perhaps not take action; Getting yf your assist you are maidhode goe, Up coming tend to yt never ever don’t end up being sene When i having my personal braunches is growe grene.”
The fresh maide thereupon begane in order to blushe, And you will turned into her in the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe very faire & clene, Their unique bewtie styll manage ever before growe grene.”
With quite a few a beneficial sighe she went their own waye, So you can se howe she maide their self so gay, In order to walke, in order to se, also to end up being sene, A keen so aside-faced the new hathorne grene
Exactly what that have she harde that it glorious dowbte, She wandered styll following the aboute; Suspecting still what she would wene, Their particular maidheade lost could not be seen.
And all of that yt put their particular into the feare So you’re able to talke with companye anye in which, Having feare to shed the thing that shuld become sene In order to grow once the was basically the latest hathorn grene.
However, after this never ever I am able to right here Of faire mayden any place, One to ever before she was a student in tree sene, So you’re able to talke againe of your hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The latest day in the is all about similar to L. Lloyd’s track said lower than. Text message of BL MS Thread Vesp. A great.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can partial for the Chappell’s PMOT. This new big date with the ballad is likely months earlier than L. Lloyd’s track over. A traditional type amassed in the place of song, regarding 1825, is actually “The Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. 4 in the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you will Songs 1975. A poor old-fashioned veresion which i suspect is learned off Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen in Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.