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but if that time & lesure serue,

infaith shee shall not neede to sterue;
ffor well I know shee doth deserue
to tast vpon sweet Nectair,
the ffoode wheron the gods do ffeede,
& all they gods they haue decreede.
but shee shall haue itt att her neede!
hey hoe! my harte is wearye!

Some say, 'if I come nye her,
my liffe must pay the hyer;'
but if I scape ffrom ffyer,

then let them doe their worst;
for water, I am sure,

while grinding doth endure,
will come like hawke to lure,
or else the Miller is curst.

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beest dothe that is chafed [heated]." Palsgrave. "To pant and be out of breath, or lill out the tongue, as a dog that is weary." Florio, p. 15; in Halliwell's Gloss.-F.

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1 Grist, Corn ground, or fit for grinding; Meal, Flower. Phillips.-F.

Lillumwham.

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WITH this poem may be compared another "Burlesque Receipt" for the same purpose in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, i. 250, “A good medesyn, yff a mayd have lost her madened, to make her a mayd ageyn," which is taken, says Mr. Halliwell, "from a copy of Caxton's Mirrour of the World, or th' ymage of the same, fol. Lond. 1481, in the King's Library in the British Museum, fol. ult. v°., written by some owner of the book in the year 1520."

A maid

went to the well to wash,

and as she
washed
her clothes,

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THE: maid, shee went to the well to washe,

Lillumwham, Lillumwham!

the mayd shee went to the well to washe,
whatt then? what then?

the maid shee went to the well to washe;
dew ffell of her lilly white fleshe;

Grandam boy, Grandam boy, heye!

8 Leg a derry, Leg a merry, mett, mer, whoope, whir! driuance, larumben, Grandam boy, heye!

White shee washee, & white1 shee ronge,
Lillumwham &c :

white shee hangd o the hazle wand,
Grandam boy, heye &c.

Is this white for while? There is no loop to the letter, and that makes the difference between the land t in this

MS.

The white of line 6, and of lines 10 and 12, is exactly the same.-F.

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There came an old Palmer by the way,

Lillumwham &c.

sais, "god speed thee well thou faire maid!"
Grandam boy, hey &c.

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Saies, "peace, ffaire mayd! you are fforsworne!

Lillumwham &c.

Nine Children you haue borne;

Grandam boy, heye &c.

"They were buryed vnder thy beds head;—

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'Three.-P.

2 Lead, a vat for dyeing, &c., Northern; a kitchen copper is sometimes so called.

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Halliwell's Gloss. "A forneys of a leed."
Chaucer, Cant. T. Prol. 1. 202.-F.

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Leg a derry, Leg a merry, met, mer, whoop, whirr ! driuance, Larumben, Grandam boy, heye!

ffinis.

See Mr. Dyce's note in the Ballads and Romances of the Folio, ii. 46.-F.

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