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Источник текста: Shirburn Ballads, 1585 - 1616. Edited from the MS by Andrew Clark. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1907.No XXIX. P. 116 -120.
Послушать можно, например, на диске Philip Pickett. Nutmeg and Ginger. Spicy Ballads from Shakespeare's London. The Musicians of the Globe. (1999).
The Miller
A pleasant ballad of the merry miller's wooing of the baker's daughter of ManchesterTo THE TUNE OF Nutmegs and ginger.
The miller, in his best array,
would needs a wooinge ride.
To Manchester he takes his way;
Saint Clement be his guide !
He can singe,
he can ring,
and doe many a pretty thinge.
He can pipe
daunce a downe,
no man better in the Towne.
His face is fayre,
and curled his hayre.
Miles they this miller call.
In Manchester a Baker dwels,
who had a daughter fayre:
Her beauty passinglye excells;
none may with her compare.
Her he leekes,
her he seekes,
and commends her crimson cheeks.
He would pipe her
daunce a downe,
before anye in the towne.
But she is coye,
and loveth not to toye—
beautye makes her disdaine.
Tom Tayler trips it verye trim,
with nosegay in his hat,
Giles Glover, when he vieweth him,
thinks nothing well of that;
In his gloues,
that he loves,
he like a true love proves,
Bordring them
with bleedinge hearts
piercfed through quite with darts.
Then the Tanner swares
hee'le haue him by the eares
that doth this Rivall prove.
It happened on a Holye-daye
these lusty wooers met;
And every party doth assaye
the Baker's gyrle to get
First began
to fayre Anne
the Tayler, like a proper man :
— 'I will make
'the garments gay,
'and daunce with thee each holy-day;
'In fashions straunge
'thy clothes I will change.'
' No !' poynt, the mayden cryde.
[a] 5 leekes] i. e. likes. la and loveth] omit and ; read loves.
[3] 8 Bordring] i. e. broidering, embroidering.
'A Taylor shall not be my love;
'and Glover I'le haue none.
'With Tanners I will never toy
—'I love to lye alone.
'The buchdr shall
'not be my halfe,
'for feare he dresse me like a calfe.
'Therefore together
'get yow gone,
' for I will mary ne'er a one.
' But I will be
' a mayden certainlye;
' I like to lye alone.'
Away these heavy Suters wend,
with sorrow in their harts.
Miles miller learned by a friend
howe they maye plead their parts.
He is bold,
nothing could;
in his purse is store of gold.
He puts on
his Munimouth cap;
and, at the dore he lovd, doth rap,
Crying—' god be heere's !'
At length corns forth his deare,
bending her pretty browes.
' Fayre mayd,' quoth he, ' I must intreate
'your companye a while.'
With that, he rudly rushbd in,
and she began to smile.
Saying, 'Staye,
' freind, I praye:
' none but I keepe howse, I saye.
'My father
'and my mother be
'both in garden certainlye.'
'The better then for me.
' I come to none other but thee,'
answered the myller playne.
[5] 12 a mayden] read maid. [6] 4 maye] read did.
1 1 heere's] read here. [7] 3 rudly] i.e. rudely.
'Here's 40 pound in gould, faire mayd;
'vse yow yt at your will.
'Besyde, before your feet, be layde
'the miller and his mill.
'Your fayre eyes
'doe surprize,
'and bewitch my fantasies.'
'Sweete !' quoth he
(with that he kist),
'vse the miller as yow list.'
The mayde lookt red;
and, blushinge, hung her hed,
saying 'I cannot love.'
'Sweet,' sayd the miller, 'be not strange
'but blythly looke on me.
'Vnto my mill I praye yow range,
'where we will merrye be.
'Lad nor lowne
'in the towne
'shall better teach yow daunce a downe.
'While my mill
'goes click a clacke
'I will set yow on a sacke.
'Sweete, goe with me
'where we will pleasant be.'
'Fye!' sayde shee, 'howe yow faigne!
'I meane to trye your curtesye,
' and go vnto your mille.
' I'le keepe this monye for a pawne
'for feare yow vse me ill.
'In the towne
'daunce a downe
' is loved of Lasse and lowne.
' If yow doe teach
'the same to me,
'your trew love I doe vowe to be.'
'Content!' he sayde,
' goe with me, gentle maide :
'yow shall my cunninge see.'
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