Throughout the Merry Singer , 1716, as the “The new Farmer’s Daughter of Merry Wakefield
The latest Shepherd sate him off, The fresh new reasonable Maid she received nigh He pull’d out their Bagpipes wond’rous sweet, And you will play’d Melodiously; He play’d her such as a tune, He made it fair Maid Play, O! new Musick away from thy Bagpipes sweet, Can make every my personal Nerves to help you Ring.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, In the event the date do however, allow it; I pray now get involved in it me personally o’er once more, Getting concern I ought to forget they, The guy play’d it over again, As he got done just before, And offered that it fair Maid far pleasure, It pleas’d their unique a little more about.
My personal Dearest Swain quoth she, A great Thousand times adieu; And you can, when We chance to clean out my Means, To obtain they, I shall come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. 4 “Ah Vicious bloody future” [4/4]; Moving Master tune “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller track over the same contours is “The new Housemaid regarding Tottenham” during the Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you will variation adaptation so you’re able to “London are a fine City” for the Pills so you’re able to Provide Melancholy , IV, 1719. Comparable is actually “This new Hazlebury Girl” within the Cecil Sharp’s MSS and you can “The newest Downs and ups” in Purslow’s Marrow Skeleton .
[There are many cuckolding reports on eron , Les Penny Nouvelles Nouvelles , or any other Renaissance stuff regarding well-known stories, that were taken upon to the reports informed within the broadside ballads, and therefore is actually a famous topic to possess broadside ballads. The following is one story at which are put into verse more than once.
A beneficial Cuckold of the Consent;
The new frollick miller one intic’d a maid, When he did think, so you can hotel within his lawless sleep; However, she decieved your regarding his intent, Plus in her room their Wife-to-be she delivered. New Song was, The fresh new Beds while making
Family members can it excite one to hear me personally talk about an excellent merry jest you to later befell, From the nearly as good a good miller as usual put stone, Yet , wasn’t pleased together with individual. However, he had been tricked in the dark, And got his very own for anothers draw.
Abreast of an occasion it chanced therefore, A proper maid toward mill performed wade, To work their unique father a batch away from corn, Brand new miller’s cardio along with her did burn Yet the guy, &c.
And also to obtain his purpose correct, He caused the maid to keep for hours, And you may said it could be almost morn, Just before he you will grin’d their unique corn: Yet , the guy, &c.
When the afternoon was done and spent, The home of his family brand new miller ran; He grabbed brand new housemaid with your collectively, To which the guy hence performed use his tongue. However, the guy, &c.
Sweet=center, quoth he, We tell thee now, That we make a key pledge, That we this night must lay with thee, And thou shalt has thy grist tole-free. But the guy, &c.
Yourself You will find a key space, Where none but my captain tourist carry out become, Thy rooms indeed there by yourself should be, And that i may come to sleep so you can thee. Yet he, &c.
The song the following is from one of one’s unmarried piece situations, so there is actually duplicates of the pay attention John Gay’s The fresh new Begger’s Opera , Air #45, 1728, and Charles Coffey’s The fresh Merry Cobler , Air #8, 1735
Sweet spirit We prithee be content, Which have maidens silence brings concur, It is no objective to say zero, For You will find sworn it shall be therefore. Yet , he, &c.
After that to his partner this new miller told you, We e maid, And you will lodge her in the parlor less than, For the woman is a good people’s child I’m sure: But he had been fooled at nighttime, And took their own having anothers mark.