New track here is from just one of your own solitary sheet activities, and there was copies of one’s listen John Gay’s The new Begger’s Opera , Air #forty-five, 1728, and Charles Coffey’s This new Merry Cobler , Heavens #8, 1735
Brand new Shepherd sate your off, Brand new fair Housemaid she drew nigh The guy pull’d out his Bagpipes wond’rous nice, And you will play’d Melodiously; The guy play’d her such as for example a tune, He generated this reasonable Housemaid Sing, O! this new Musick of thy Bagpipes sweet, Tends to make most of the my Nervousness in order to Band.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, In case the big date manage however, allow they; I hope now play it me o’er once more, To own worry I ought to forget about they, He play’d it once again, As he had done ahead of, And gave which reasonable Maid much happiness, It pleas’d her a lot more about.
My personal Dearest Swain quoth she, A Thousand moments adieu; And you will, if ever We chance to lose my personal Way, Locate it, I will come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. cuatro “Ah Vicious bloody future” [4/4]; Dancing Master song “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller track along the same outlines was “The brand new Housemaid of Tottenham” inside Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you can variant type in order to “London area is actually a fine City” for the Tablets to Provide Melancholy , IV, 1719. Comparable are “The brand new Hazlebury Girl” in Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you will “The new Pros and cons” inside the Purslow’s Marrow Skeleton .
[There are numerous cuckolding tales on the eron , Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles , or other Renaissance stuff out of prominent stories, that have been pulled upon toward stories told within the broadside ballads, and this are a famous subject to own broadside ballads. Here’s one story from which is placed into verse more than once.
An excellent Cuckold by Consent;
Brand new frollick miller you to intic’d a housemaid, As he did envision, to hotel in his lawless sleep; But she decieved your off his intent, And in her place their Wife-to-be she sent. The fresh new Tune try, The brand new Bedrooms and also make
Nearest and dearest does it delight that hear me personally tell of a great merry jest one later befell, Because of the nearly as good a miller as ever laid stone, Yet , wasn’t contented together with his individual. But he was fooled in the dark, And grabbed his or her own to possess anothers draw.
Abreast of an occasion they chanced very, A genuine housemaid towards the mill performed wade, To help you grind their particular dad a batch out of corn, The new miller’s cardiovascular system together with her performed burn off Yet the guy, &c.
And also to get his mission right, The guy caused the housemaid to keep all day, And you can told you it could be nearly morn, Ahead of which he could grin’d their unique corn: Yet , he, &c.
Once the afternoon try complete and you may invested, Home to their family brand new miller went; The guy grabbed new maid which have him along, So you’re able to whom the guy for this reason performed fool around with his language. However, the guy, &c.
Sweet=center, quoth the guy, We give thee today, Which i made a key vow, That we it night need lie which nyttige tip have thee, And you may thou shalt has actually thy grist tole-free. But he, &c.
Yourself I’ve a key place, In which nothing however, my chief visitors do come, Thy lodging indeed there alone can be, And i can come to sleep in order to thee. Yet , the guy, &c.
Nice heart We prithee getting blogs, With maidens silence gives consent, It’s objective to express zero, Getting You will find bound they are going to be so. Yet the guy, &c.
Up coming in order to his wife the newest miller said, We elizabeth housemaid, And you can resorts their from the parlor below, To possess she is an excellent people’s child I know: But he had been fooled at nighttime, And got his or her own having anothers mark.