For once she expected of tre: “Howe appeared which freshnes unto the latest?

Towards the Wednesday from the afternoon I grabbed a walk in the newest career, It was to bring my personal curage dwon, But nevertheless I was forced to produce: Having indeed there We met with a beneficial bobtail'd lass, But I ought to features enacted their unique because of the, And i also be sure to took her by hand, A we direct their particular to your kye. This new pettycoat that she got towards the Was made of blanket bluish, New smock try just like the black once the charcole, Trust in me it was genuine; But appealing terminology, commonly lure more youthful birds, Those of their colony manage fly, And you may I'll never believ't try the first time You to definitely she got become stuck from the kye. An effective council, good guy, We bring, To you personally, son, We bring, Never ever need with a good bob-tail'd lass As long as you have one hour to live. You'd beter capture one that is proper and you may tall, In the event she become never therefore terrible, Having I never try therefore disgraced during my lives As i is through this bob-tail'd whoore.

Regarding Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland off Sweet Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, as to what is actually NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.

Area step 3, English Musical

It was good maide off my countre As the she emerged from the a hathorne-tre While the laden with plants, as could well be viewed, She merveld to se new tre thus grene

The new tre housemaid answere by and by: “I have a beneficial causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The fresh new swetest dew that ever before feel sene Doth fall into myself and kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the new maid, “however, in which thou growe, Thou stande at hande for every single blowe, Of any man for to be seen; I mervaile that thou growe so grene.”

“No matter if many-one grab vegetation regarding me personally, & manye a good branche of my personal tre, You will find including shop, it wyll not sene, For lots more & my tredges growe grene.”

“But exactly how, in addition they chaunce to chop new downe And you may hold thie braunches to the towne? Next have a tendency to it never don’t getting sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you do, yt ys no boote, Withoute they reduce me to the fresh new roote; Next yere againe I’m sene So you’re able to bude my twigs freshe and you may grene.”

“While, fair maide, canne not get it done; To possess yf you let youre maidhode goe, After that tend to yt never ever no more end up being sene As i with my personal braunches is growe grene.”

The newest maide with this begane to help you blushe, And you can turned her on the hathorne bushe. She imagine herdelffe so effectuer & clene, Their bewtie styll do actually ever growe grene.”

Just what which have she harde it marvelous dowbte, She went styll up coming every aboute; Suspecting nevertheless what she’d wene, Their particular maidheade missing would never get noticed.

With quite a few good sighe she ran their unique waye, In order to se howe she maide their particular notice very gay, To help you walke, in order to se, also to end up being sene, An enthusiastic therefore aside-faced the fresh new hathorne grene

And all of that yt lay their within the feare So you can talke with companye anye Hollandsk kvinder til Г¦gteskab where, For feare to reduce the thing that shuld feel sene So you can grow due to the fact was in fact this new hathorn grene.

However, after that never I could here From the faire mayden anywhere, You to actually she was a student in tree sene, So you can talke againe of the hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The new date with the is about exactly like L. Lloyd’s track stated less than. Text out-of BL MS Pure cotton Vesp. Good.twenty five, thru K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem sixteen. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and incomplete within the Chappell’s PMOT. The date from the ballad is probable period earlier than L. Lloyd’s tune more than. A classic version collected as opposed to track, about 1825, is actually “The latest Hawthorn Green”, p. 4 into the E. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Distinct Ballads and Musical 1975. A bad antique veresion that i believe was discovered off Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The latest Hawthorn Plant”, p. fifteen inside Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.