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R214087 8 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Blew-cap Blue Cap Blue Cap the same tune Blue Cap The Same Tune COme hither the merri'st of all the nine, / come sit thee down by me and let vs be jolly, A Dainty spruce Spanyard with haire black as jett, / long cloak with round cape, a long Rapier & Ponyard Gif ever I have a man, / Blew-cap for me. Gif ever I have a man, / Blew-cap for me. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 20 1: 21 Blew Cap for me. / OR, / A Scottish Lasse her resolute chusing / Shee'l have bonny blew-cap, all other refusing. Blew Cap for me. OR, A Scottish Lasse her resolute chusing Shee’l have bonny blew-cap, all other refusing. Blew Cap for me. OR, A Scottish Lasse her resolute choosing She'll have bonny blew-cap, all others refusing. 1633-1633 Thomas Lambert

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COme hither the merrist of all the nine, come sit thee down by me and let us be jolly, And in a full cup of Apollos wine, weell drowne our old enemy mad melancholy: Which when wee have done, weell betweene us devise A dainty new ditty, with art to comprise, And of this new ditty, the matter shall be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me. There lives a blithe Lasse in Faukeland towne, and shee had some suitors I wot not how many, But her resolution she had set downe, that sheed have a Blew-cap gif ere she had any: An English man when our good King was there, Came often unto her and loved her deere: But still she replide, Sir, I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me. A Welch man that had a long sword by her side, red pritches, red Tublet red Coat, & red Peard, was make a creat shew with a creat deal of pride and tell her strange tale that the like was nere [heard]: Was reckon her pedigree, long before Prute,
No body was by her that can her confute: But still she replide, Sir, I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man. Blew-cap for me. A French-man that largely was booted and spurd, long lockt, with a Ribon, long points and breeches. Hees ready to kisse her at every word, and for further exercise his fingers itches: You be pritty wench Mitris, par ma foy, Be gar me doe love you, then be not you coy: But still she replide, Sir. I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me. An Irish man with a long skeane in his hose, did tinke to obtaine her it was no great matter, Up stayres to her chamber so lightly he goes, that she nere heard him untill he came at her: Quoth he I doe love you, by fate and by trote, And if you will have me, experience shall shote: But still she replide, Sir, I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me.
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A Dainty spruce Spanyard with haire black as jett, long cloak with round caps, a long Rapier & Ponyard Hee told her if that shee could Scotland forget, heed shew her the Vines as they grow in the Vineyard. If thou wilt abandon this Country so cold, Ile shew thee faire Spaine, and much Indian gold, But stil she replide, Sir, I pray let me be. Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me. A haughty high German of Hamborough towne, a proper tall gallant with mighty mustachoes: He weepes if the Lasse upon him doe but frowne, yet hees a great Fencer that comes to ore-match us. But yet all his fine fencing could not get the Lasse, She denyd him so oft, that he wearyed was: For still she replide, Sir, I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for me. A Netherland Mariner there came by chance, whose cheekes did resemble two rosting Pomwaters: To this Cany Lasse he his sute did advance, and as taught by nature he cunningly flatters: Isk will make thee, said he, sole Lady oth Sea, Both Spanirds and Englishmen shall thee obey,
But stil she replide, Sir, I pray let me be, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for mee. These sundry Sutors of severall Lands, did daily solicite this Lasse for her favour, And every one of them alike understands that to win the prize they in vaine did endeavour. For she had resolved (as I before said) To have bonny Blew-cap, or else dee a maid. Unto all her suppliants still replyde she, Gif ever I have a man, Blew-cap for mee. At last came a Scottish man (with a blew-cap) and he was the party for whom she had tarryd To get this blithe bonny Lasse twas his gude hap, they gangd to the Kirk & were presently marryd. I ken not weele whether it were Lord or Leard, They ca[u]de him some [s]ike a like name as I heard, To chuse him from all, she did gladly agree. And still she cride Blew-cap th art welcome to mee.
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