28 looke in the dam, & you may spye cold keepe this Mill ffrom grindinge. shee does not grind eche plowmans gris1; Her mill has plenty of water. 32 but ffor sweet recreation. ffinis. 1 Grist, Corn ground, or fit for grinding; Meal, Flower. Phillips.-F. Lillumwham. [Page 461 of MS.] 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 12 4 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, white' shee hangd o the hazle wand, 1 Is this white for while? There is no loop to the letter, and that makes the difference between the 7 and t in this MS. The white of line 6, and of lines 10 and 12, is exactly the same.-F. 16 20 24 28 32 36 There came an old Palmer by the way, Lillumwham &c. sais, "god speed thee well thou faire maid!" Saies, "peace, ffaire mayd! you are fforsworne! Lillumwham &c. Nine Children you haue borne; แ Grandam boy, heye &c.— 1 40 other three vnder thy brewing leade2; Grandam boy, hey &c. Three.-P. 2 Lead, a vat for dyeing, &c., Northern; a kitchen copper is sometimes so called. a palmer asked her for a cup to drink out of. She said she hadn't one. "If your lover came you'd soon find some." "I never had a lover." "That's a story! You've had 9 children, and murdered them all!" Halliwell's Gloss. "A forneys of a leed." |