Like shall I go, love shall We remain, Like should I go additional means

W]hy are you willing to label that it a handsome bed in which none lies toward but a servant maid a slave housemaid altho’ she be happy’s the guy one enjoyeth thee

My] love’s from the State off Armagh and i myself a way-off Oh basically had their particular on the County out of off I might rather then 10 thousand pound

Roy Palmer designs several versions in the tune in his blog post ‘The Weaver in Love’, Folk-music Diary din webbplats, 1977, however, I don’t consider the guy set things to one another accurately. This new broadside ballad “Tend to the newest Weaver and you can Charity new Chambermaid” Rawlinson collection, Bodleian, plus the Pepys Ballads , III, 132, 1987, is released by Phillip Brooksby, 1671-1685 (their target after that transform). The fresh song quoted on the broadside is actually “In order to a pleasant the fresh song; Otherwise, I am a weaver of the my personal trade. Or, Now i’m sure, &c,”. Nothing ones tunes is identified.

Right now you will find simply 18th century copies of “Will the brand new Weaver” (Holloway and you will Black’s Later English Broadside Ballads , We, #123, “The brand new Weaver and his awesome lover” (Palmer’s D text), and you can “#38 “The fresh new Fair Maid’s desire to know their own A-b-c” (Palmer’s C text message, down the page). But I do believe these were additional to each other to create the fresh new 17th century broadside. Palmer’s print of the broadside text doesn’t mention in which you to definitely track brakes of and also the other starts. The initial seven verses is actually “Usually the brand new Weaver” plus the history a dozen is “The students Maid’s appeal.” I append “Beauties Caution Bit” second, where we discover altered passages of the “Maids need to learn their A b c” in another seventeenth century broadside ballad.

My personal like is ill and you will need die and you can an excellent disappointed guy that day is I the good news is the fresh weaver enjoyes their satisfaction and you will marry’d so you can thee servant lass a servant lass in the event she become happy’s the man one enjoyeth shee

Closest with the text the following is Palmer’s D text, hence seem to be an enhance of these significantly more than. The new verse beginning “My personal love try ill and you will would you like to perish” is not out-of-place if one understands that she’s ‘green disease,’ this new cure for which had been sexual intercourse. Comprehend the early ballad “Green Ailment Grief” commencing “Already been become my personal nice and you will bonny that” considering a lot more than.

This new Fair Maid’s want to understand their unique A b c

I am good sailor away from zero trade, Very long time I courted a fairly housemaid, And when I can not their particular rather have winnings, I am going to off to water, off to ocean I shall go again.

I went unto my personal love’s chamber door, In which at times I had been just before My like she emerged and you may let me inside the, And away to sleep, and off to sleep she went once again.

I turned down new holand sheet sets, Observe their charm both fine and neat and a little lower than here I did spy A couple of pillars off, a couple pillars from white ivory.

She sigh’d and you can sobb’d which means that performed said, As to why is actually We born, why try I born to help you perish a maid.

Try ther never an earlier man usually myself let you know, Some emails out of my personal criss-cross row [alphabet Which i may know along with the guy, Particular letters of my A-b-c.

I lay my personal pen to your their particular give, We bid their utilize it in the her command, She knew complete really where I happened to be to visit; Very soon she learn’t very in the near future she learn’t their particular criss-cross row.

A version of it track so garbled it cannot seem to have been accepted is during Clear and you may Karples English Folksongs on the South Appalachains , II, p. 119, “Ibby Damsel.”