For once she questioned of the tre: “Howe showed up it freshnes unto the new?
On Wednesday about mid-day We got a walk-in the brand new industry, It absolutely was to create my personal curage dwon, But still I found myself compelled to yield: To own there I confronted by an excellent bobtail'd lass, However, I should possess enacted their particular because of the, And i be sure to got their unique of the give, A we head their own towards kye. The brand new pettycoat that she had into Was developed of the blanket blue, The fresh smock was because the black while the charcole, Trust me it was real; But appealing terms, commonly lure younger wild birds, The ones from its nest perform fly, And you may I'll most likely never believ't is the very first time You to definitely she had started caught from the kye. An effective council, good people, We bring, For you, young man, I give, Never ever just take that have a bob-tail'd lass For as long as you one hour to call home. You'd beter bring one that is correct and you can high, Whether or not she become never ever thus terrible, Having We never is actually so disgraced in my life As i is actually through this bob-tail'd whoore.
Out-of Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, so there of James Maidment’s ‘Ane Charming Garland from Nice Scented Flowers’, 1835, about what is NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.13 f. 42.
Area 3, English Tunes
It had been a good maide out-of my personal countre Due to the fact she showed up from the a good hathorne-tre Due to the fact full of plant life, because the might be viewed, She merveld so you can se the fresh new tre thus grene
The fresh tre maid answere by-and-by: “You will find an excellent causse so you’re able to growe triumphantly; The newest swetest dew that ever feel sene Doth slip towards me and you may kepe my grene.
“Yea ,” quothe the newest housemaid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande at the hande for each and every blowe, Of every man to own to be noticed; I mervaile you to thou growe very grene.”
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