Toward Wednesday on mid-day We took a walk-in the fresh field, It was to carry my curage dwon, But still I was compelled to produce: Having there We confronted by a good bobtail'd lass, But I should provides introduced their by the, And i also kindly got their own from the give, An i direct their on the kye. This new pettycoat one to she had with the Is made of the blanket bluish, New smock is because black colored due to the fact charcole, Believe me this was correct; However, tempting terms and conditions, will lure young birds, The ones from its colony would fly, And you may I'll never believ't try the first occasion You to she had started stuck regarding kye. An excellent council, an effective man, I give, For you, young buck, We offer, Never take which have good bob-tail'd lass For as long as you have an hour to live on. You had beter just take one that is right and you can tall, Even if she end up being never very worst, To possess I never are thus disgraced in my life While i are from this bob-tail'd whoore.
Off Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there sexy young Chittagong women out-of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland regarding Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, about what grew to become NLS MS Adv. 19.step 1.13 f. 42.
Point step 3, English Music
It actually was an effective maide away from my countre Since the she showed up by the good hathorne-tre Given that laden up with vegetation, as the would be viewed, She merveld to help you se the fresh new tre thus grene
Brand new tre maid answere by and by: “You will find an effective causse to growe triumphantly; The latest swetest dew one to actually end up being sene Doth slide with the me personally and you may kepe my personal grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the newest maid, “but where thou growe, Thou stande within hande for each blowe, Of any guy for to be seen; I mervaile you to thou growe therefore grene.”
“Though many-one get plant life away from me, & manye a good branche away from my personal tre, I’ve such as shop, they wyll not sene, For lots more & my tredges growe grene.”
“But exactly how, and they chaunce to chop the brand new downe And you may bring thie braunches into the towne? Then often they never ever don’t feel sene To expand againe thus freshe & grene.”
“Thoughe you perform, yt ys no boote, Withoute they slash us to the roote; Second yere againe I’m sene In order to bude my branches freshe and you may grene.”
“While, reasonable maide, canne not take action; To possess yf your assist you are maidhode goe, After that will yt never ever no further feel sene Once i that have my personal braunches can be growe grene.”
The newest maide thereupon begane to help you blushe, And you may turned their particular on hathorne bushe. She envision herdelffe so faire & clene, Their bewtie styll would actually ever growe grene.”
With many different an excellent sighe she ran their particular waye, In order to se howe she maide her care about so gay, To help you walke, to se, and getting sene, An enthusiastic therefore out-encountered the hathorne grene
Just what with she harde so it marvelous dowbte, She strolled styll upcoming every aboute; Suspecting still exactly what she would wene, Their particular maidheade destroyed couldn’t get noticed.
Along with all of that yt set their particular for the feare In order to talke which have companye anye where, To possess feare to lose the point that shuld feel sene So you can build given that was indeed the new hathorn grene.
However, after this never I will here Associated with the faire mayden any place, One to ever before she was in tree sene, To help you talke againe of one’s hathorne grene. G. Poete [Peele?]
The new date of is mostly about the same as L. Lloyd’s track mentioned lower than. Text message of BL MS Cotton Vesp. A.25, through K. Boeddeker’s article ‘Englische Lieder und Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , N. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you can partial in the Chappell’s PMOT. Brand new date with the ballad is probable months prior to when L. Lloyd’s tune over. A classic version amassed in the place of track, on the 1825, try “The new Hawthorn Green”, p. cuatro inside Age. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and Music 1975. An awful conventional veresion that i believe is discovered regarding Chappell’s PMOT, is actually “The brand new Hawthorn Plant”, p. 15 within the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.