%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Give me the Willow-Garland, / Or, The Maidens Former Fear, and the Latter Comfort. / At first she for a Husband made great moan, / But at the last she found a loving one. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/18/2021 36509

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R227189 1 Give me the willow-garland [unknown] Give Me the Willow Garland AS I walked forth / in the merry month of June. Take pitty, quoth she, / some gentle body, / Give me the Willow-Garland, / for none will have me. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. : Give me the Willow-Garland, / Or, The Maidens Former Fear, and the Latter Comfort. / At first she for a Husband made great moan, / But at the last she found a loving one. Give me the Willow-Garland, or, the maiden's former fear, and latter comfort. At first she for a husband made great moan, but at the last she found a loving one. ?-? F. Coles, T. Vere, J. VVright, and J. Clarke

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AS I walked forth in the merry month of June, To hear the Nightingale sing her best tune: I spy'd a young Maid, which sighed and said, My time I have wasted in vain, much love I have spent, which makes me repent, On them that holds me in disdain: Take pitty, quoth she, some gentle body, Give me the Willow-Garland, for none will have me. I am in my conscience full sixteen years old, Yet still go unmarried which makes my heart cold: there's many you see that's younger then me, that suckles sweet babes at the brest that lives at their ease, and carries the Keys Of many fair Cupboard and Chest: Take pitty, etc.
Some men will give handkerchiefs some will give gloves, And some will give Bookins, to purchase maids loves: but I like a friend, my money did lend, And never did ask it again: and them that received, in whom I believed, Have put me to sorrow and pain: Take pitty, etc. When William at first, come a wooing to me, Good Lord then how jocond, and frolick was he? he clip'd me, he kis'd me, he hug'd me in his arms, He promis'd to make me his wife: but he was mistaken, and I am forsaken, Which causes much sorrow & strife: Take pitty, quoth she, some gentle body, Give me the Willow-Garland, for none will have me.
THe next that came to me was smirking fine Thomas, and like sweet William, did make me a promise, but when this young Lad, his will of me had He gave me a Judas-like kiss, so parted away, the truth 'tis to say, I ne'r saw him from that time to Take pitty, quoth she, some gentle body; Give me the Willow-Garland, for none will have me. Then John the brave Gallant, with a Sword by his side, Came to me, and told me, he'd make me his bride: but in this brave youth, I found but small truth, although he did vow and protest, to me to prove true, yet he bad me adieu, and prov'd quite as bad as the rest: Take pitty, etc. There was Richard and Robert, c[a]me both on one day, But they like the others soon vanish'd away: and since that time, whilst spring was in prime, I have had of suitors great plenty, I dare to be bold, if they were all told, That they were at least 3 & twenty. Take pitty, etc.
Now seeing that fortune hath me so much crost, That all my old sweet-hearts, are quite gone and lost, myself i'le commend to God Cupid my friend, And to him will heartil[y] pray, to send me a love that constant will prove, And never to straggle away. Take pitty, etc. There's nothing at all that belongs to a man, But in a short warning well fit him I can: I have silver and gold, which my Father never told, I have very good cloaths to my back I have house and land, and good goods at command, Tis only a husband I lack; Take pitty, etc. You see how my Visage, is grown pale and wan, You well may perceive for want of a man: my Pulses do beat and my body doth sweat, and my fences are all at great strife my belly doth ake & my heart-strings will break If I cannot be made a Wife. And therefore, quoth she, some gentle body, Make me a Willow-Garland, or else marry me.
At last came a young-man of courage most bold, Saying, sweet-heart, I care not for Silver nor Gold: but if thou wilt prove like the Turtle-Dove, Right faithful & true to thy friend, then will I be thine, and thou shalt be mine, And i[']le love thee unto my lives end Your Servant, quoth she, my True love, quoth he, Clap hands on the bargain, and so we'l agree. And now this young woman is eas[']d of her pain, For she never after was known to compl[a]in: he made her his wife, and she lives a brave life, Attyred in garments most brave, and all things at will her mind to fulfil, at every command she'l now have, Her Husband is kind, they are both of a mind, According as Nature, and Love doth them bind. Farewel now, quoth she, to the green Willow-tree, I have got a Husband that well pleaseth me.
FINIS. L.P. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.