Nobleman & Maid

X:53224
T:Nobleman & Maid
C:Mrs Marina Russell, Upwey coll. HED Hammond
S:England
A:Dorset
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W:Transcribed from HAM-02-236.gif - Hammond's field notes
W:[page numbered with, printed in top right corner:] 31
W:[left of title:] 525 [right of title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
W:[left of first stave, bracketed:] Dorian \ Aeolian ??
W:[at end of last stave:] Words D VI p 120
W:[below last stave:] cp. tunes 373 & 388 [unclear]
W:Assuming that the amendments in the verso leaf are not from Mrs Russell, 
W:the words below are as they might have been from her, based on HAM-01-558 W:
W:One evening her master came to her
W:A-playing & talking with glee
W:Many rich presents he gave her
W:'Oh! come pretty Nancy, love me.'
W:
W:Oh! master, I should wonder much at you
W:A man that is agA? ?d & grey
W:To have such long desire
W:A poor innocent maid to betray
W:
W:Oh! Nancy you can go to your mammy
W:That now lives in fair Glo'stershire
W:And if your baby you murder
W:There's no-one will know it, my dear
W:
W:Oh! Master, I wont trust you nor love you
W:Nor no other man in this place
W:What matter one night to lie by me
W:You'll bring me to shame and disgrace
W:
W:When he found that he could not delude her
W:Oh straight to the Church they did go
W:He made her a nobleman's Lady
W:5000 a year she enjoy
W: