The fresh new Shepherd sate him down, Brand new reasonable Maid she drew nigh He pull’d out his Bagpipes wond’rous sweet, And you can play’d Melodiously; He play’d her instance a tune, He produced that it fair Maid Sing, O! the brand new Musick from thy Bagpipes nice, Tends to make all my Anxiety so you’re able to Band.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, Whether your time would but allow it; We pray today get involved in it me personally o’er once more, Having fear I will forget it, He play’d it once again, When he had done in advance of, And gave so it fair Maid much glee, It pleas’d their own a lot more about.
My Dearest Swain quoth she, A Thousand moments adieu; And, if ever We possibility to eliminate my Means, Locate they, I’ll come to you.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. 4 “Ah Vicious bloody future” [4/4]; Moving Grasp track “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A shorter tune along the same outlines was “The latest Housemaid regarding Tottenham” when you look at the Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you can variant version in order to “London is an excellent City” within the Pills so you’re able to Throw up Melancholy , IV, 1719. Comparable is actually “This new Hazlebury Girl” inside Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you will “The Pros and cons” in the Purslow’s Marrow Bones .
[There are various cuckolding reports about eron , Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles , and other Renaissance series regarding popular stories, which were drawn abreast of with the stories told inside broadside ballads, and therefore is actually a greatest subject having broadside ballads. Is one facts from which is placed into verse over and over again.
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The fresh frollick miller that intic’d a housemaid, When he did envision, so you can hotel within his lawless bed; However, she decieved your of their purpose, Plus their area their Wife-to-be she delivered. Continuar leyendo “Regarding Merry Artist , 1716, since “The fresh new Farmer’s Daughter away from Merry Wakefield”