Towards Wednesday on the day We grabbed a walk in the new job, It actually was to bring my curage dwon, Yet still I happened to be forced to yield: To have here I confronted with a beneficial bobtail'd lass, However, I will possess enacted her because of the, And that i be sure to got her by hand, An i direct their own to your kye. This new pettycoat one to she had into the Is made of one's blanket bluish, The newest smock is once the black just like the charcole, Trust me this is real; But tempting terms, tend to lure young birds, That from their colony perform travel, And you can I'll never believ't are the 1st time You to definitely she had come caught on the kye. An effective council, good man, We render, For you, child, We give, Never ever get which have a good bob-tail'd lass As long as you've one hour to call home. You'd beter simply take one that is correct and significant, Even in the event she getting never thus poor, For I never is actually very disgraced during my life Whenever i is by this bob-tail'd whoore.
Away from Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there away from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland of Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to the has become NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.
Point step three, English Audio
It actually was a beneficial maide off my personal countre Since the she came because of the a beneficial hathorne-tre Since full of plant life, once the will be viewed, She merveld in order to se new tre very grene
The fresh new tre housemaid answere by-and-by: “I’ve a good causse so you can growe triumphantly; The newest swetest dew one to actually ever feel sene Doth slip to your me personally and kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the latest housemaid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande within hande for every blowe, Of any people having to be seen; I mervaile one thou growe very grene.”
“Regardless if many one grab plant life from myself, & manye a great branche from my personal tre, I have such as for example shop, it wyll not sene, To get more & my personal tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and additionally they chaunce to slice new downe And you can hold thie braunches in to the towne? Upcoming tend to it never no longer be sene To enhance againe so freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe you vacker estniska tjej sexig create, yt ys zero boote, Withoute they slash me to brand new roote; Second yere againe I will be sene To help you bude my branches freshe and you will grene.”
“And you also, reasonable maide, canne perhaps not do so; To have yf you let you are maidhode goe, Up coming tend to yt never no longer getting sene Once i which have my braunches is growe grene.”
The newest maide with that begane so you can blushe, And you can became their own throughout the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe very faire & clene, Their unique bewtie styll manage ever growe grene.”
With lots of a good sighe she went their waye, To se howe she maide their self very gay, So you can walke, so you’re able to se, in order to end up being sene, A keen therefore away-encountered the new hathorne grene
Exactly what which have she harde which wonderful dowbte, She went styll after that all aboute; Suspecting still what she would wene, Their own maidheade missing couldn’t rise above the crowd.
In addition to all of that yt place her inside feare To talke with companye anye in which, To possess feare to reduce the matter that shuld end up being sene To grow just like the were the new hathorn grene.
But next never ever I can here In the faire mayden any place, You to definitely ever before she was at tree sene, In order to talke againe of your hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The latest day on the is all about the same as L. Lloyd’s tune mentioned less than. Text message regarding BL MS Cotton Vesp. A good.twenty-five, via K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and partial from inside the Chappell’s PMOT. This new time for the ballad is likely period earlier than L. Lloyd’s song above. A timeless variation compiled in place of tune, about 1825, try “This new Hawthorn Environmentally friendly”, p. cuatro in the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Line of Ballads and you will Songs 1975. A terrible traditional veresion which i think was discovered out-of Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The brand new Hawthorn Bush”, p. fifteen for the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.