81. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
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Communicated by Miss Margaret Reburn, as heard in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.
1 'How do you like my rug?' he said,
'And how do you like my sheets?
And how do you like my false ladie,
That lies in your arms asleep?'
'And how do you like my sheets?
And how do you like my false ladie,
That lies in your arms asleep?'
2 'Well I like your rug my lord,
And well I like your sheets;
But better than all your fair ladie,
That lies in my arms asleep.'
And well I like your sheets;
But better than all your fair ladie,
That lies in my arms asleep.'
- 32. in pale.
- 62. geight.
- 63. wilt wed.
- 92. or sinn.
- 173. thou fair.
- 298. on upper.
- 14. Their masses and mattins.
- 22. omits private.
- 32. pale.
- 34. among.
- 44. I have.
- 54. Yet word I never durst.
- 62. daintily bedight.
- 71. lady fair.
- 72. you shew.
- 74. will I.
- 81. All this was heard by.
- 83. Quo he, though I am my ladies page.
- 84. my lord.
- 92. Although I lose a limb.
- 93. whereas.
- 104. thy none.
- 14. omits will.
- 143. when as the.
- 144. Away, thou little Musgrave.
- 153. Bernards horn.
- 164. to fold.
- 171. the perch.
- 173. thy fair.
- 182. lighted upon a stone.
- 194. Doest find my lady so sweet.
- 203. hunder'd pound.
- 214. That I killed.
- 253. not do.
- 254. Though I.
- 261. omits That: heart.
- 272. ne're were.
- 282. on a.
- 54. Musgerue. 6 is written in the MS. after 8, but a marginal note by the scribe directs this stanza to be put two higher than it is written. Furnivall.
- 84. awaw.
- 93. out 3.
- 112. Between here and 123 half a page is gone.
- 134. all 3.
- The lamentable Ditty of Little Mousgrove and the Lady Barnet. … London, printed for H. Gosson. Stanzas of eight lines.
- London: printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.
- A Lamentable Ballad of the Little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet. … London, printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.
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- 153. might lay. After 16: The second part.
- Musgrove throughout.
- 11. light wanting.
- 12. more be.
- 24. which did to the.
- 32. some came. c. pale.
- 38. The next: the lady.
- 34. c. among.
- 41. upon.
- 43. well thou perceived.
- 51. The most wanting.
- 53. b. reply.
- 63. that you please.
- 72. my love.
- 81. b. my life: my death.
- 82. will lye.
- 84. c. my love to thee.
- 93. come.
- 94. While: doe wanting.
- 103. So he: doe wanting.
- 111. he said.
- 131. ran this.
- 133. b. He then.
- 133. his own.
- 142. c. he did.
- 144. bent his.
- 152. to the.
- 153. b. my say. c. may say.
- 162. there wanting. c. did make.
- 163. upon.
- 164. doth.
- 172. that thou. b. telst.
- 173. to wanting.
- 182. as wanting. b. to wanting.
- 183. shall be set up.
- 184. thou shalt.
- 192. thou hearest of. c. And a.
- 193. Never stay a pair of gallows to make. b. to wanting.
- 194. me on.
- 201. Lord Barnet calld his merry men all.
- 203. was so.
- 211. he said.
- 214. b. his deed.
- 221. to make no noise.
- 222. all…on wanting.
- 223. horn.
- 231. c. of them that.
- 233. him notice: was come.
- 234. wind the.
- 241. did sound.
- 243. if he.
- 264. into the.
- 273. awake: did espy. b. then he.
- 274. the beds.
- 282. cloathing.
- 283. c. never shall.
- 283. England fair.
- 284. That I.
- 291. b. Here is two swords.
- 292. c. The choice: Musgrove shall.
- 293. shall.
- 301. good wanting.
- 301, 3. that wanting.
- 312. did wanting.
- 313. And with: furious wise.
- 324. she's the better skin: c. she is.
