It latter is sung to “The latest Delights of your Container” features six range stanzas
Following said brand new Green-Bird once the she flew, We loved one one to prov’d not the case: And since she will no further rise above the crowd, Such as for instance a relationship-ill Housemaid We turn-to eco-friendly
Then did start the brand new Chattering Swallow, My love she actually is fled, but I might maybe not follow, Nowadays upon the new Fireplace large, We play ahead my personal worst malady.
Ah! claims the newest Owl, my personal like is finished, That we a great deal did dote through to: I’m sure maybe not exactly how my like to realize, However, just after her I [w]hoop and you may hollow. [hallo
Regarding merry month regarding Get, whenever prety Wild birds create sing, Which have chirping and with sugared noats so you’re able to greeting from the Springtime, It actually was my personal chance to stroll abroad on the areas so gay Where lots of a great prety Lad and you may Lass ended up being event Could possibly get
Next says the fresh Lapwing once the she flies, We lookup the Meads in addition to Skies: But aren’t able to find my Like again, Very on the I flie within the deadly aches.
Then said the Thrush, We squeak and you will play, Which doth in my opinion zero comfort render, Getting quite often We at midnight, List my love and you will hearts happiness.
Brand new Canary-bird she then is available in, To tell their story she doth begin; I’m from my personal beloved like bereft, So i has my very own Country remaining.
This new Chafinch next actually starts to chat, For love, quoth she, my center have a tendency to split; I grieve very to own my simply precious, We sing but two months around.
Following, quoth new Magpye, I became crost, Crazy, now my personal precious is missing; And you may finding regarding my personal hjearts contentment, I mourn to have him into the grayscale.
Oh claims this new Rook, and you will eke the brand new Crow, Exactly why during the black colored we go, This is because wa is actually forsook, Started pity all of us bad Crow and you will Rook.
The fresh Bullfinch he had been inside a fury, Amnd absolutely nothing you are going to his wrath assuage So in the Trees the guy won’t dwell, However, uses their amount of time in all alone Phone.
Ergo you have got read this new Birds grievance, Getting appreciate its restraint Let this to all or any a cycle getting To possess so you’re able to take pleasure in Constancy.
Which expands the earlier “The brand new Birds Harmony, Pepys, IV, 268, authored by Mary Coles, Vere, Wright, Clarke, Thackeray and you may Passinger (1681-2).
[The final section isn’t the just ballad offering talking wild birds. An early on you’re on the ‘Book off Fortune’collection from inside the BL. This “The brand new Wild birds Noats for the mond, 1655. The brand new song is: “Off in a Meadow” out of Lawrence Price’s “The world Peoples Felicity”, generally termed as “The Haymakers” or “The Merry Haymakers”. Here you will find the around three passages provided by Ebsworth, together with my (verse designated) scanty cards into the ballad.]
Then told you the fresh new Environmentally friendly-Bird as she travelled, I friend one prov’d not true: And since she can no more get noticed, Such as for example a relationship-ill Housemaid We move to environmentally friendly
John met with Besse betimes, until the split regarding go out, And you can hand in hand so you’re able to Lambeth areas they nimbly took its way: The turf are a little slick following this pair off it dropped Exactly what they said before it rose, O the new prety Lark can say!
3: William and you will Sarah life style, Newington..Blackbird is actually around 4: Richard confronted with Rachel- got eco-friendly dress- Raven understands. 5: Robert exposed to Nan next. Jack-daw seen. 6: Samuel & Susan were merry seven: on Higher entrance 8: Butcher and learn daughter.. Hackay town, take spied. 9: Domme & Journeyman, tript up Mistress’s heels, Cuckoo told. 10: younger lord & quite Woman 11: If any of those people. 12: [Last] Your Country Lads and you may Lasses, do you really believe fore commit totally free! You may have far more twatling birds, I know, than just close to the Town become: You collect Should even as we, and Day you have and tumble towards turf very gren, which brand new Birds do know for sure.
