Toward Wednesday about day We took a walk in brand new occupation, It absolutely was to create my curage dwon, But still I became forced to produce: Having here I met with a good bobtail'd lass, However, I ought to has actually passed their own by the, And i kindly got their particular by hand, An i direct their particular to the kye. The brand new pettycoat one to she got on Was made of your own blanket bluish, The new smock is because black since the charcole, Believe me this was correct; However, enticing terms, usually tempt younger birds, The ones from the colony create travel, And you can I'll most likely never believ't is the 1st time One she got come caught about kye. An excellent council, a beneficial people, We provide, For your requirements, child, I promote, Never ever just take which have an excellent bob-tail'd lass For as long as you an hour or so to reside. You'd beter simply take one that's right and tall, No matter if she feel never ever therefore bad, Having I never are thus disgraced in my own life While i is actually through this bob-tail'd whoore.

Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland out-of Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, from what grew to become NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.

Section step 3, English Musical

It actually was an effective maide out-of my personal countre While the she appeared by a good hathorne-tre Because laden up with plant life, since is viewed, She merveld to help you se the fresh new tre so grene

The brand new tre maid answere by-and-by: “I have an effective causse to growe triumphantly; New swetest dew that actually end up being sene Doth slip into me and you may kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the newest maid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande on hande per blowe, Of any people for to be noticed; We mervaile one thou growe thus grene.”

“Although many-one grab herbs of me, & manye a good branche out of my personal tre, You will find for example shop, it wyll not sene, For lots more & my tredges growe grene.”

“But how, and so they chaunce to cut the brand new downe And carry thie braunches into the towne? Following usually it never ever no further end up being sene To expand againe therefore freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you manage, yt ys no boote, Withoute it slash us to the latest roote; Second yere againe I will be sene In order to bude my branches freshe and you may grene.”

“And you also, fair maide, canne maybe not do so; To possess yf you help youre maidhode goe, Up coming usually yt never ever no longer getting sene As i which have my personal braunches can be growe grene.”

The brand new maide with this begane to help you blushe, And you will turned their unique in the hathorne bushe. She believe herdelffe so effectuer & clene, Their own bewtie styll perform ever before growe grene.”

With many different a sighe she went their own waye, So you’re able to se howe she maide their self very gay, To help you walke, so you can se, and to end up being sene, A keen so away-confronted brand new hathorne grene

Exactly what that have she harde it wonderful dowbte, She strolled styll up coming all the aboute; Suspecting still what she’d wene, Her maidheade destroyed could not be seen.

As well as all of that yt put their unique inside feare To help you talke which have companye anye where, To possess feare to get rid of the matter that shuld getting sene In order to develop while the had been new hathorn grene.

However, after that never I will here In the effectuer mayden any place, That actually she was in forest sene, To help you talke againe of your hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The fresh go out associated with the is all about similar to L. Lloyd’s song mentioned below. Text out-of BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. A beneficial.25, thru K. Boeddeker’s blog post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und auch englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you may partial in the Chappell’s PMOT. The fresh day of the ballad is probably period sooner than L. Lloyd’s track more than. A timeless version gathered in the place of tune, in the 1825, is “The new Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro within the Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinct Ballads and you will Sounds 1975. A bad antique veresion which i believe was learned regarding Chappell’s PMOT, try “The fresh Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 within the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.