In the Merry Singer , 1716, just like the “This new Farmer’s Daughter regarding Merry Wakefield
New Shepherd sate your down, The new fair Housemaid she received nigh The guy pull’d away his Bagpipes wond’rous sweet, And you can play’d Melodiously; He play’d their unique instance a tune, Which he produced so it reasonable Maid Play, O! the newest Musick from thy Bagpipes sweet, Renders all the my personal Nerves to Ring.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, If for example the big date manage however, permit they; I pray today get involved in it me o’er once more, Getting worry I will ignore it, He play’d they over again, When he had complete just before, And gave which fair Maid far glee, It pleas’d their unique more about.
My personal Dearest Swain quoth she, A great Thousand times adieu; And you will, when We chance to remove my personal Method, To get it, I’ll come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. cuatro “Ah Cruel bloody fate” [4/4]; Dance Grasp track “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller song along the exact same lines was “The fresh new Maid from Tottenham” in Choyce Drollery , 1656 and variation variation so you can “London area was an excellent Urban area” when you look at the Pills so you can Throw up Melancholy , IV, 1719. Very similar was “The Hazlebury Girl” within the Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you may “The new Good and the bad” inside the Purslow’s Marrow Bones .
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