From the Merry Singer , 1716, since «The brand new Farmer’s Daughter of Merry Wakefield
The Shepherd sate him down, The latest fair Housemaid she received nigh He pull’d away their Bagpipes wond’rous sweet, And you may play’d Melodiously; The guy play’d their particular particularly a track, Which he produced which fair Maid Play, O! the fresh Musick from thy Bagpipes nice, Produces the my Anxiety to Band.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, Should your time carry out but allow they; We pray today get involved in it myself o’er again, For concern I will forget they, The guy play’d it over again, When he got over before, And provided it reasonable Maid far delight, They pleas’d her about.
My personal Dearest Swain quoth she, A good Thousand moments adieu; And you may, if ever I opportunity to eradicate my Method, To locate they, I will come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. cuatro «Ah Cruel soft fate» [4/4]; Dance Master track «Merry Milkmaids» [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller track across the exact same traces try «The brand new Housemaid out of Tottenham» when you look at the Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you can version adaptation in order to «London area are an excellent Area» within the Pills in order to Provide Melancholy , IV, 1719. Comparable is «The fresh new Hazlebury Girl» during the Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you will «The Downs and ups» in the Purslow’s Marrow Skeleton .
[There are numerous cuckolding reports on the eron , Les Penny Nouvelles Nouvelles , and other Renaissance stuff away from preferred stories, that have been removed upon for the tales advised inside the broadside ballads, and this was a famous subject to possess broadside ballads. We have found one such facts at which is actually put in verse more than once.
A good Cuckold by Concur;
The newest frollick miller that intic’d a maid, As he did consider, in order to resorts in the lawless bed; But she decieved your regarding their intention, And also in her space his Wife to be she delivered.
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On a period of time they chanced thus, An actual maid for the factory performed wade, So you’re able to work their unique father a batch from corn, This new miller’s center with her did burn off Yet , he, &c.
Also to obtain their purpose proper, The guy caused the housemaid to stay for hours, And you will told you it will be almost morn, Ahead of that he you are going to grin’d their own corn: Yet , the guy, &c.
And when the afternoon is done and you may invested, The place to find his family new miller went; He grabbed the fresh new maid that have your with each other, In order to whom he for this reason performed explore his tongue. But he, &c.
Sweet=cardio, quoth he, We tell thee today, That we make a key vow, That i it nights need to lay which have thee, And you will thou shalt possess thy grist tole-free. But he, &c.
At your home We have a secret place, In which nothing but my chief traffic would already been, Thy accommodations around alone is going to be, And i can come to sleep in order to thee. But really he, &c.
The newest song here’s from just one of your unmarried sheet items, and there is actually duplicates of one’s tune in John Gay’s The new Begger’s Opera , Air #45, 1728, and you may Charles Coffey’s The brand new Merry Cobler , Heavens #8, 1735
Nice soul I prithee getting stuff, Having maidens silence provides agree, It is no goal to express zero, To have I have pledged it are so. Yet he, &c.
Next in order to his partner the latest miller said, I e maid, And you will lodge their own from the parlor lower than, To possess the woman is a man’s child I am aware: However, he was deceived at nighttime, And grabbed his own to own anothers draw.