The brand new Shepherd sate your down, The brand new fair Maid she drew nigh The guy pull’d aside his Bagpipes wond’rous nice, And you may play’d Melodiously; He play’d her eg a tune, Which he produced this fair Maid Play, O! the latest Musick out of thy Bagpipes sweet, Renders all my Nervousness to Band.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, When your big date manage however, permit they; We pray today play it myself o’er once more, To have concern I ought to disregard they, He play’d they once again, When he had over before, And you will offered which reasonable Housemaid much contentment, It pleas’d her about.
My Dearest Swain quoth she, An effective Thousand times adieu; And you may, if We opportunity to cure my Means, Discover it, I am going to come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. cuatro “Ah Vicious soft destiny” [4/4]; Dance Learn tune “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A shorter track across the exact same traces was “Brand new Maid regarding Tottenham” during the Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you can variation version to “London area is a fine Town” into the Tablets to help you Purge Melancholy , IV, 1719. Comparable is actually “The Hazlebury Girl” in the Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you may “This new Ups and downs” in Purslow’s Marrow Bones . Sayfaya Git From the Merry Artist , 1716, due to the fact “Brand new Farmer’s Daughter away from Merry Wakefield
