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S96146 6 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Shackley bay Shall I Wrestle in Despair Shackley Bay the same tune Shackley Hay; To All You Ladies Now at Land The Same Tune YOung Palmus was a ferriman, / whom Sheldra faire did loue: THus all in vaine he did complaine, / and no remorce could find: Fa la la, fa, la la la la. Fa, la la. &c. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 436 1: 437 A most excellent Song of the loue of young Palmus, and faire Sheldra, with their / vnfortunate loue. A most excellent Song of the love of young Palmus, and faire Sheldra, with their unfortunate love. A most excellent Song of the love of young Palmus, and fair Sheldra, with their unfortunate love. 1602-1602 I.W.

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YOung Palmus was a Ferriman, whom Sheldra faire did love: At Shackley where her sheep did graze, she there his thoughts did prove. But he unkindly stole away, and left his love at Shackley-hay. Fa la la, fa, la la la la. So loud at Shackley did she cry, the woods resound at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, fa, la la la la. But all in vaine she did complaine, for nothing could him move: Till wind did turne him backe againe, and brought him to his love. When she saw him thus turnd by fate, She turnd her love to mortall hate. Fa la la, etc. Then weeping to her did he say, Ile live with thee at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. No, no, (quoth she) I thee deny, my love thou once didst scorne, And my prayers wouldst not heare, but left me here forlorne: And now being turnd by fate of wind, Thou thinkst to win me to thy mind. Fa, la la, etc. Go, go, farewell I thee denay, Thou shalt not live at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. If that thou dost my love disdaine, because I live on seas, Or that I am a Ferry-man, my Sheldra doth displease: I will no more in that estate, Be servile unto wind and fate, Fa, la la, etc. But quite forsake Boats, Oares & Sea, And live with thee at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc.
My Sheldras bed shall be my Boat, her armes shall be my Oares, where love in stead of stormes shal float on pleasant downes and shores: Her sweetest breath my gentle gale, Through tides of love to drive my saile Fa, la la, etc. Her looke my praise and she my joy, To live with me at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. Not Phao shall with me compare, so fortunate to prove: Faire Venus never was his fare, Ile beare the Queene of love: The working waters never feare For Cupids selfe our Barge shall steere Fa, la la etc. And to the shore I still will cry, My Sheldra comes to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. To strew my Boate for thy availe, Ile rob the flowrie shores, And whilst thou guidst the silken saile, Ile row with silver Oares: And as upon the streams we float, A thousand Swans shal guide our boat. Fa, la la, etc. And to the shore still will I cry, My Sheldra comes to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. And have a story painted there, wherein there shall be seene, How Sapho lovd a Ferriman, being a learned Queene: In golden letters shall be writ, How well in love himselfe he quit, Fa, la la, etc. That all the Lasses still shall cry, With Palmus weele to Shackley hay Fa, la la, etc.
And walking easily to the Strand, weele angle in the brooke, And fish with thy white-lilly hand, thou needst no other booke, To which the fish shall soone be brought & strive which shall the first be caught. Fa, la la, etc. A thousand pleasures will we try, As we doe row to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. And if we be opprest with heate in mid-time of the day, Under the Willowes tall and great, shall be our quiet bay, Where I wil make thee fans of bowes, From Phoebus beames to shade thy browes, Fa, la la, etc. And cause them at the Ferry cry, A boat, a boat to Shackley-hay Fa, la la etc. A troupe of dainty neighboring girles, shall dance along the strand, Upon the gravell all of pearles, to wait when thou shalt land, And cast themselves about thee round, Whilst thou with garlands shalt be crownd, Fa, la la, etc. And all the shepheards with joy sh[all] cry O Sheldray is come to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. Although I did my selfe absent, twas but to try thy mind: But now thou maist thy selfe repent, for being so unkind: For now thou art turnd by wind & fate In stead of love t[h] hast purchast hate. Fa, la la, etc. Wherefore returne thee to the Sea, And bid farwell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc.
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THus all in vaine he did complaine, and no remorce could find: Young Palmus through his owne disdaine made Sheldra faire unkind: And she is from him fled and gone, He laid him in his boat alone, Fa, la la. etc. And so betook him to the Sea, And bade farewell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. Then from the happy sandy shore, into the floating waves, His vessell fraught with brinish teares, into the maine hee laves. But all in vaine, for why he still With weeping eyes his boat did fill, Fa, la la, etc. And lancht his boat into the sea, And bade farewell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. Now farwell to my Sheldra faire, whom I no more shall see: I meane to leave my life at sea, by thy unconstancy. Come Neptune, come to thee I cry, With thee Ile live, with thee Ile dye. Fa, la la, etc. Thus he lancht himselfe into the sea, And bade farewell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la etc. But farre from thence he had not gone, ere Sheldra faire returned, Whose heart kind pitye made to moane, such passion in her burned: But when she to that place arrivd, She found the shore from him deprivd. Fa, la la, etc. And her deare Palmus now at sea, Had bade farwell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. She then with bitter sighes complaind, her griefe did so abound: Oft grieving that she him disdaind, whom he so loving found: But now (alas) twas all in vaine, For he was gone by her disdayne. Fa, la la etc. Leaving that place to her alone, Who now laments that he is gone. Fa, la la, etc. O wreched Sheldra, then, quoth she, confesse what fond disdayne, Hath wrath caused to fall on thee: could this long suffering-paine, By thee (alas) so soone forgot, Servd to thy loves strange hatefull lot. Fa, la la, etc. And thus to lye, and for him crie, Whom thou so fondly didst deny. Fa, la la, fa, la la la la.
Who once did truly love, I see, shall never after hate As doth too well appeare by me, in my forsaken state. Alas, I meant my scorne to prove, By onely tryall of his love. Fa la la, fa, la la la la. Now haplesse me, since I doe see, He hath forsaken wofull me, Fa, la la, etc. Thus all this while in roughest seas, poore Palmus boat was tost: But more his mind with his disease, because he Sheldra lost. In mids of this, he her forswears, He rent his boat and tore his haires. Fa, la la, etc. Threw hope away, for he alas, Could be no more drownd then he was. Fa, la la, etc. Even as his griefe had swallowed him, so strove the greedy waves: About his boat and ore the brim, each lofty billow raves: There is no trust to swelling powers, That what it may it still devoures, Fa, la la, etc. But by the breach the seas might see, The boat felt more the rage then hee. Fa, la la, etc. Thus wrackt and scatterd was their state while he in quiet swomme: Through liquid paths to Thetis gate by soft degrees went downe Whom when the Nymphs beheld, the Girles, Soone layd aside their sorting pearles. Fa, la la, etc. And up they heavd him as a guest, Unlookt for now come to their feast, Fa, la la, etc. His case they pittied: but when they beheld his face right faine, For very love, into the sea, they pulld him backe againe: So were they with his beauty movd, For what is faire is soone belovd. Fa, la la, etc. Thus with Nimphs he lives in the sea, That left his love at Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, etc. Then Sheldra faire to Shackley went, to end her wofull dayes, Because young Palmus cast himselfe into the floating Seas. At Shackley-hay did fayre Sheldra dye, And Palmus in the sea doth lye, Fa, la la, etc. So as they livd so did they dye, And bade farewell to Shackley-hay. Fa, la la, fa, la la la la
FINIS. Printed at London for J.W.