The Roxburghe ballads . 308 [Roxburghe Collection, II. 343 ; Pepysian, IV. 15.] 09errp booing of Robin ant) Joan, <&bz MmCoimtxp tlotarg* To the Tune of, The Beginning of the World, or, Sellingers Round, or,Great Boobe [sic. see p. 307].. [This also belongs to The Willow Green tumd into White, and to pp. 177,178.] C\ -^ther! chave been a Batchellor,\J This twelve and twenty yeare,And Ize have often been a wooing:And yet cham never the near :Joan Gromball cheel ha none of me,Ize look so like a Lowt:But I vaith, cham as proper a man as she;Zhee needs not be zo stout. She zaies, if Ize coud da
The Roxburghe ballads . 308 [Roxburghe Collection, II. 343 ; Pepysian, IV. 15.] 09errp booing of Robin ant) Joan, <&bz MmCoimtxp tlotarg* To the Tune of, The Beginning of the World, or, Sellingers Round, or,Great Boobe [sic. see p. 307].. [This also belongs to The Willow Green tumd into White, and to pp. 177,178.] C\ -^ther! chave been a Batchellor,\J This twelve and twenty yeare,And Ize have often been a wooing:And yet cham never the near :Joan Gromball cheel ha none of me,Ize look so like a Lowt:But I vaith, cham as proper a man as she;Zhee needs not be zo stout. She zaies, if Ize coud daunce and sing,As Thomas Miller can,Or cut a Cauper, as little Jack Taylor, 0 how cheed love me then; But zoft and fair, chil none of that, 1 vaith, cham not zo nimble, The Taylor ha nought to trouble his thought,But his needle and his thimble. [ Chave=1 have 16 The Merry Wooing of Robin and Joan. 309 [Robins Mother.]— 0 Zon, th art of a lawful age, And a jolly tide[y j Boy, Ide have thee try her once again, She can but say [thee] nay. [Robin.]— Then, O grammarcy, Mother! Chill zet a good vace of the matter; Chill dress up my zelf as tine as a dog, And chill have a fresh bout at her. 24 And first chill put on my Zuriday parrel,Tha
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