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R215913 4 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Shackley-hey Shackley Hay; To All You Ladies Now at Land Shackley-hey YOung Palmus was a Ferry-man, / whom Sheldra fair did love, fa la, fa la la la Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 472 1: 473 A most Excellent Song of the Love of Young Palmus and fair Sheldra. A most Excellent Song of the Love of Young Palmus and fair Sheldra. A most Excellent Song of the Love of Young Palmus and fair Sheldra. Printer Alex. Milbourn 1686-1686 Alex. Milbourn

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YOung Palmus was a Ferry-man, whom Sheldra fair 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-hey, fa la, fa la la la, So loud at Shackley she did cry, The words resounded at Shackley-hey. fa la, fa la la la. But all in vain she did complain, for nothing did him move, Till wind did turn him back again, and brought him to his love, When she saw him thus turnd by fate, She turnd her love to mortal hate. fa la, etc. Then weeping to himself did say, Ill live with thee at Shackley-hey, fa la, etc. No no quoth she, I thee deny, my love thou once did scorn, And to my prayers would not hear, but left me here forlorn: But now being turnd by fate of wind, Thou thinkst to win me to thy mind, etc. Go go, farewel I thee deny, Then shalt thou live at Shackley-hey, etc. If thou dost my love disdain, because I live on the Seas, Or that I am a Ferry-man my Sheldra doth displease: I will no more in that estate Be subject unto wind and fate, etc. But quite forsake both Oars and Sea, To live with thee at Shackley-hey, etc. My Sheldras bed shall be my boat, her arms shall be my Oars, Where love instead of storms shall float, on pleasant downs and shoars: Her sweet breath my pleasant gale, through tides of love to guide my sail, etc. Her love my praise, she is my joy, To live with me at Shackley-hey, etc.
No Titan shall with me compare, so fortunate to prove, For Venus never was his peer, ile bear the Queen of love: The working water never fear, For Cupids self our Barge shall steer: fa la, etc. And to the shore I still will cry, My Sheldras come to Shackley-hey, fa la, etc. To strow the boat for thy avail, ile Rob the flowery shores, And whilst thou guidst the Silken Sail, ile Row with golden Oars, And as upon the Seas we float, fa la, etc. And to the Shoar I still will cry, My Sheldra comes to Shackley-hey, fa la, etc. And have a story painted there, whereon there may be seen How Sopho lovd a Ferry-man, being a learned Queen: in Golden letters shall be writ, How well in love himself he quit, fa la, etc. Then all the Lasses still shall say, With Palmus well to Shackley-hey, fa la, etc. And walking easily to the Strand, well angle in the brook, And fish with the white lilly wand thou knowst no other hook: To which the fish shall soon be brought And strive which shall be caught, etc. A thousand pleasures we shall try, As we walk on to Shackley-hey, etc. And if we be opprest with heat, in the mid time of the Day, Under the Willows tall and great, shall be our quiet bay: Where I will make thee fans of bowes, from Phoebus beams to shade thy brow fa la, etc. And cause them at the ferry cry, My sheldra comes to shackley hey, etc. A troop of dainty neighbouring Girls shall dance along the strand, Upon the Gravel all of pearls, to wait when thou shalt land: And cast themselves upon the ground, whilst thou with garland shall be crownd And shepherds all with joy shall say, See sheldra come to shackley-hey, etc.
ALthough I did my self absent, twas but to try thy mind, But now thou mayst thy self absent, for being so unkind: for now thourt turnd by wind and fate, instead of love thou purchest hate, fa la, etc. [T]herefore return thee to the sea, And bid farewel to Shackley-hey, [fa] la, etc. [T]hen all in vain she did complain, and no remorse could find, [Y]oung Palmus through his own disdain, made fair Sheldra unkind: And she is from him fled and gone, He laid him in his boat alone, etc. And so betook him to the sea; And bad farewel to Shackley hey, etc. Then from the happy sandy shore, into the floating waves, His Vessel fraught with brinish tears, into the main he laves: but all in vain, for why he still, With weeping eyes his boat did fill, etc. He launcht himself into the sea, And bad farewel to shackley-hey, etc. Now farewel to my Sheldra fair, whom I no more shall see, [I m]ean to lead my life at Sea, by thy inconstancy. Come Neptune come, to thee I cry, With thee ile live, with thee ile die, etc. Then launcht himself into the Sea and bad farewel to shackley-hey, etc. but far from thence he had not gone, ere Sheldra fair returnd: Whose kind pitty made me moan, such passion in her burnd: but when she to that place arrivd, She found the shore of him deprivd, fa la, etc. and her dear Palmus now at Sea, Had bid farewel to shackley-hey, fa la, etc. She then with bitter sighs complaind, her grief did so abound, Oft grieving that she him disdaind, whom she so loving found: but now alas twas all in vain, for he was gone by her disdain, fa la, etc. Leaving that place to her alone, Who now laments that he is gone, fa la, etc. O wretched Sheldra then quoth he, confess what fond disdain, Hath wrath caused to fall on thee, by this long suffering pain: By thee alas, so soon forgot,
Serve to thy loves strange hateful lost fa la, etc. and thus to lie and for him cry, Whom thou so fondly did deny, fa la, etc. Who once did fairly love I see, will never after hate, as doth too well appear by me, in my forsaking state: alas my scorn I mean to prove, By only trial of thy love, etc. Now hapless me for I do see. He hath forsaken woful me, etc. Thus all the while in roughest Seas, poor Palmus boat was tost, But more ins mind this did disease, because his Sheldras lost? in midst of this he her forswears, He rent his Coat, and tore his hair, etc. Threw hope away, for he alas, Could be no more drownd then he was; fa la, etc. Even as his grief had swallowd him, so did the greedy waves, about his Boat and ore the brim, each Billow swiftly raves: There is no trust in swelling powers, That what it may it still devours, etc. and the breach of the Seas may see, The boat felt more the rage than he, etc. Thus wrapt and scattered in the state, while he in quiet swam, Through liquid path to Thetis gate, by soft degrees went down Whom when the Nymph beheld, the girls Soon laid aside their sporting Pearls, fa la, etc. And up they heavd him as a Guest, Unlookt for now come to the feast, etc. His case they pittied, but when they beheld his face right fain, For very love into the Sea, they pulld him back again: So they were with his beauty movd, For what is fair is soon belovd, fa la, etc. Then with the Nymphs he lives in Sea, That left his love at Shackley-hey, fa la, etc. Then sheldra fair to shackley went, to end her woful daies, Because Young Palmus cast himself into the floating Seas, At Shackley did fair Sheldra die, Young Palmus in the Seas doth lie, fa la, etc. So as they livd, so did they die, And bid farewel to Shackley-hey, fa la, fa la la la.
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