Toward Wednesday in the mid-day We took a walk in the newest industry, It had been to create my curage dwon, But nevertheless I happened to be obligated to give: For there I confronted with a beneficial bobtail'd lass Zašto ne mogu naći ženu, But I ought to keeps passed their unique from the, And i also be sure to got their particular by the hands, A we direct their own toward kye. The newest pettycoat you to definitely she had on Was created of blanket blue, Brand new smock try since black colored once the charcole, Trust me this is genuine; However, tempting terms and conditions, usually tempt younger wild birds, That from their colony perform fly, And I'll never believ't are the 1st time You to definitely she got become stuck about kye. Good council, a great people, We promote, For your requirements, young buck, I provide, Never ever grab with good bob-tail'd lass As long as you have an hour to reside. You had beter grab one that is correct and significant, Regardless of if she getting never thus terrible, Having We never ever are thus disgraced inside my lives Once i is from this bob-tail'd whoore.

Away from Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland out-of Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, from what is becoming NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.

Part 3, English Musical

It was an effective maide away from my personal countre As she emerged by the good hathorne-tre Because the full of plant life, because the might be seen, She merveld in order to se the tre thus grene

The latest tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “We have a great causse in order to growe triumphantly; The new swetest dew that actually ever be sene Doth slide to the me personally and you may kepe my grene.

“Yea ,” quothe this new maid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande from the hande for each blowe, Of any man for to be noticed; I mervaile that thou growe thus grene.”

“Regardless of if many-one take herbs of me personally, & manye good branche regarding my personal tre, I have such as for example shop, it wyll never be sene, For much more & my personal tredges growe grene.”

“But exactly how, and chaunce to reduce the new downe And you will hold thie braunches in to the towne? Next commonly it never ever not getting sene To grow againe thus freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you carry out, yt ys no boote, Withoute they slashed me to the fresh roote; 2nd yere againe I am sene So you’re able to bude my branches freshe and grene.”

“While, fair maide, canne maybe not do it; To possess yf your help youre maidhode goe, Then will yt never ever not feel sene Once i that have my braunches can also be growe grene.”

The fresh maide with that begane to blushe, And you will turned into their from the hathorne bushe. She thought herdelffe therefore effectuer & clene, Her bewtie styll would actually growe grene.”

With many a beneficial sighe she went their unique waye, To se howe she maide her thinking thus gay, So you’re able to walke, so you can se, and also to become sene, An enthusiastic thus out-experienced the fresh new hathorne grene

What that have she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She strolled styll following all of the aboute; Suspecting nonetheless just what she’d wene, Her maidheade forgotten could not rise above the crowd.

As well as all of that yt set her into the feare To help you talke that have companye anye in which, To possess feare to reduce the point that shuld become sene So you’re able to build just like the was the fresh hathorn grene.

But following this never ever I will here Associated with the effectuer mayden anyplace, One actually she was in tree sene, In order to talke againe of your own hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]

New date from the is about exactly like L. Lloyd’s song mentioned lower than. Text message of BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A beneficial.twenty five, via K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and incomplete within the Chappell’s PMOT. The latest date of the ballad is likely months earlier than L. Lloyd’s song above. A vintage variation amassed instead of track, throughout the 1825, is actually “The Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. cuatro inside the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinctive line of Ballads and Audio 1975. A poor conventional veresion that i suspect is read off Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “Brand new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen for the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.