Towards Wednesday regarding day We took a walk-in the new industry, It had been to take my personal curage dwon, But still I happened to be obligated to yield: To possess there We met with good bobtail'd lass, However, I ought to provides passed their particular by, And i also kindly took their from the hands, A we lead their on kye. The latest pettycoat you to definitely she had into the Was created of blanket blue, New smock was while the black colored given that charcole, Trust in me this was genuine; However, tempting words, often tempt young wild birds, Those of their colony carry out travel, And you can I'll never believ't is actually the very first time That she had been trapped on kye. A great council, a great guy, press this site I give, For you, child, I promote, Never ever grab having a bob-tail'd lass Provided you have an hour or so to live on. You had beter get one that is right and high, Whether or not she end up being never very worst, Getting We never are therefore disgraced in my own lives When i are by this bob-tail'd whoore.

Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there off James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland of Sweet Scented Flowers’, 1835, as to what is starting to become NLS MS Adv. 19.1.thirteen f. 42.

Point step 3, English Tunes

It absolutely was an effective maide off my countre As the she showed up of the an effective hathorne-tre Just like the full of plants, once the could well be seen, She merveld in order to se the latest tre therefore grene

The fresh tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “I have a causse to growe triumphantly; New swetest dew one to actually ever be sene Doth fall with the me personally and you may kepe my grene.

“Yea ,” quothe brand new housemaid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande from the hande per blowe, Of every guy for to be seen; I mervaile you to thou growe therefore grene.”

“Even in the event many-one capture herbs out of me personally, & manye good branche from my tre, I have such store, they wyll never be sene, For more & my tredges growe grene.”

“But how, and so they chaunce to cut brand new downe And bring thie braunches in to the towne? After that tend to it never ever not end up being sene To grow againe so freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe you perform, yt ys no boote, Withoute they reduce us to new roote; 2nd yere againe I’m sene So you’re able to bude my personal branches freshe and grene.”

“Therefore, fair maide, canne perhaps not exercise; Getting yf you help you are maidhode goe, Upcoming often yt never not any longer feel sene As i having my personal braunches can also be growe grene.”

The fresh maide with this begane in order to blushe, And turned into their regarding the hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe very effectuer & clene, Their particular bewtie styll would actually ever growe grene.”

With many a beneficial sighe she ran their unique waye, To se howe she maide their worry about so gay, To help you walke, to se, and also to become sene, An enthusiastic thus away-faced this new hathorne grene

Exactly what having she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She wandered styll next every aboute; Suspecting nevertheless what she’d wene, Their unique maidheade destroyed couldn’t be seen.

Besides all that yt set their for the feare To talke having companye anye where, Having feare to lose the thing that shuld feel sene In order to develop due to the fact had been the newest hathorn grene.

However, after that never ever I can here Associated with the faire mayden anyplace, That actually she was in tree sene, So you can talke againe of hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The new time regarding the concerns exactly like L. Lloyd’s track stated below. Text away from BL MS Cotton Vesp. A.25, through K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may partial inside Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh new go out associated with ballad is probable several months prior to when L. Lloyd’s track above. A traditional type collected versus track, about 1825, was “The new Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro from inside the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Type of Ballads and you may Songs 1975. A terrible traditional veresion which i think is read away from Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The fresh Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen inside Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.