Like shall I go, like will We stand, Like will I go some other means

W]hy do you really telephone call that it a good-looking sleep in which nothing lies on but a slave housemaid a servant housemaid altho’ she end up being happy’s the person you to definitely enjoyeth thee

My] love’s on County away from Armagh and i me an excellent way-off Oh easily had their particular throughout the Condition out of off Vietnamesisk smukke kvinder I might rather then ten thousand-pound

My love was ill and you will desire to die and a beneficial disappointed people that go out try I however new weaver enjoyes his bliss and you will marry’d to thee servant lass a slave lass regardless of if she end up being happy’s the man one enjoyeth shee

The broadside ballad “Commonly this new Weaver and you may Charity the brand new Chambermaid” Rawlinson collection, Bodleian, as well as the Pepys Ballads , III, 132, 1987, is released from the Phillip Brooksby, 1671-1685 (his target upcoming alter). The fresh track cited into the broadside are “To a nice the latest tune; Or, I’m a great weaver by the my exchange. Otherwise, Now i’m bound, &c,”. Not one of these music is actually recognized.

Roy Palmer images numerous variants of this song in his article ‘The Weaver into the Love’, Folk music Diary , 1977, however, I don’t imagine he set one thing to one another truthfully

Currently i have just 18th century duplicates away from “Will the new Weaver” (Holloway and you may Black’s Later on English Broadside Ballads , I, #123, “The newest Weaver and his awesome sweetheart” (Palmer’s D text message), and you will “#38 “The brand new Reasonable Maid’s desire to know their unique A b c” (Palmer’s C text message, here). However, I do believe they were added together in order to create the newest seventeenth century broadside. Palmer’s print of the broadside text doesn’t note in which that track brakes from therefore the most other begins. The first seven passages is actually “Tend to the new Weaver” as well as the history 12 is “The students Maid’s notice.” I append “Beauties Alerting Part” second, in which we find modified verses of one’s “Maids need to know their particular A-b-c” in another 17th century broadside ballad.

Closest towards the text is Palmer’s D text, and that seem to be a revise of the more than. Brand new verse beginning “My personal like is unwell and you will need to die” is not out-of-place if an individual knows that she’s got ‘green problems,’ the cure for that was sexual intercourse. Comprehend the very early ballad “Environmentally friendly Sickness Grief” beginning “Started come my personal sweet and bonny that” provided over.

The latest Fair Maid’s desire to see their unique A b c

I’m a beneficial sailor off no change, While We courted a fairly maid, Of course, if I can’t their unique rather have earn, I am going to off to sea, off to sea I will wade again.

I went unto my love’s chamber doorway, Where from time to time I had been before My love she emerged and let me from inside the, And you will off to bed, and off to sleep she ran once again.

We turned-down this new holand sheets, Observe their unique charm each other good and you may tidy and a small less than truth be told there I did so spy Several pillars regarding, two pillars out-of white ivory.

She sigh’d and sobb’d and therefore did told you, As to the reasons was I born, why is actually I created so you’re able to perish a maid.

Try ther never ever an early on guy often myself show, Specific letters out of my criss-cross line [alphabet That we may know along with the guy, Some letters off my A-b-c.

I set my personal pencil with the her hand, I bid their make use of it during the their particular command, She know complete better where I was to go; Thus soon she learn’t very soon she learn’t their own criss-cross row.

A version of this track very garbled that it cannot appear to have become acknowledged is during Sharp and you can Karples English Folksongs in the Southern Appalachains , II, p. 119, “Ibby Damsel.”