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The Roxburghe ballads . rave manner as ere was seen,Where, as they Married was indeed, now he cast off the Willow Green. 72 So Lovers all I bid adieu, I pray much of my Verses make,These Lines I here present to you, wherein you may a pattern take :I wish you may continue long in Pleasure, Comfort, and Delight,Aud theres an end of my new Song, calld the Willow Green tur/td into White. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. [In Black-letter. With one woodcut, see p. 208. Date, 1674-81.] *#* These two ballads, < The Distressed Lovers Complaint, and The MaidsAnswer, are indisp
The Roxburghe ballads . rave manner as ere was seen,Where, as they Married was indeed, now he cast off the Willow Green. 72 So Lovers all I bid adieu, I pray much of my Verses make,These Lines I here present to you, wherein you may a pattern take :I wish you may continue long in Pleasure, Comfort, and Delight,Aud theres an end of my new Song, calld the Willow Green tur/td into White. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. [In Black-letter. With one woodcut, see p. 208. Date, 1674-81.] *#* These two ballads, < The Distressed Lovers Complaint, and The MaidsAnswer, are indisputably in sequence, and to the same tune. But another ballad,sub-titled, The Willow Green turned into Carnation, although to a totallydifferent tune and rhythm, deserves to be brought in connection with them ;more especially because it is the promised Original of Cupids Trappan, knownalso as Bonny bonny bird, and, from second stanza, Up the Green the same popular tune were sung the ballads mentioned on p. [This couple belongs to pp. 354, 359: the single figure to pp. 204, 445, and vi. 258.] 359 [Pepys Coll., III. 107; Rawlinson, 111; Euing, 35; Douce, I. 39 vo., I. SO;C. 22. fol. 41 ; Lindesiana, 974.] Cupitrs Crappan; or, flip tije ateen JForest. ©r, tije ^corner Scornti; or 3MIoui titrno into Carnation,©escrtieo m tfje Eanttnrj Eesolutton of a iforsanen jjKato. To a Pleasant New Tune, now all in fashion. [See pp. 181, 182.] ONce did I love a bonny bonny Bird, [al. led., and a bonny. Thinking tbat be had been my he lovd another far better than I, And hes taken his flight, and hes flown, brave Boys,And hes taken his flight, and is flown. Up the green Forrest, and down the green Forrest,Like one much distressed in mind; I [wjhoopt and I [wjhoopt, and I flung up my Hood,But my bonny Bird I could not find, brave Boys,But my bonny Bird \_I could not find], [Repeat, passim. But she that hath gotten my bonny bonny Bird, Would the Devil had had her for me !It
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