ANONYMOUS
Shall never be said the Nut-brown Maid
Was to her love unkind. Make you ready, for so am I,
Although it were anone: For, in my mind, of all mankind
I love but you alone.
He. Yet I you rede to take good heed
What men will think and say: Of young, of old, it shall be told
That ye be gone away Your wanton will for to fulfil,
In green-wood you to play; And that ye might for your delight
No longer make delay Rather than yc should thus for me
Be called an ill woman Yet would I to the green-wood go,
Alone, a banished man.
She. Though it be sung of old and young
That I should be to blame, Theirs be the charge that speak so large
In hurting of my name For I will prove that faithful love
It is devoid of shame; In your distress and heaviness
To part with you the same. And sure all tho that do not so
True lovers are they none For, in my mind, of all mankind
I love but you alone.
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