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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346121" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nut-Brown Maid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.BE it right or wrong, these men among <br>On women do complain; <br>Affirming this, how that it is <br>A labour spent in vain <br>To love them wele; for never a dele <br>They love a man again: <br>For let a man do what he can <br>Their favour to attain, <br>Yet if a new to them pursue, <br>Their first true lover than <br>Laboureth for naught; for from her thought <br>He is a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.I say not nay, but that all day <br>It is both written and said <br>That woman's faith is, as who saith, <br>All utterly decayd: <br>But nevertheless, right good witnèss <br>In this case might be laid <br>That they love true and continue: <br>Record the Nut-brown Maid, <br>Which, when her love came her to prove, <br>To her to make his moan, <br>Would not depart; for in her heart <br>She loved but him alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Then between us let us discuss <br>What was all the manere <br>Between them two: we will also <br>Tell all the pain in fere <br>That she was in. Now I begin, <br>So that ye me answere: <br>Wherefore all ye that present be, <br>I pray you, give an ear. <br>I am the Knight. I come by night, <br>As secret as I can, <br>Saying, Alas! thus standeth the case, <br>I am a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.And I your will for to fulfil <br>In this will not refuse; <br>Trusting to show, in wordes few, <br>That men have an ill use—<br>To their own shame—women to blame, <br>And causeless them accuse. <br>Therefore to you I answer now, <br>All women to excuse— <br>Mine own heart dear, with you what cheer? <br>I pray you, tell anone; <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.It standeth so: a deed is do <br>Whereof great harm shall grow: <br>My destiny is for to die <br>A shameful death, I trow; <br>Or else to flee. The t' one must be. <br>None other way I know <br>But to withdraw as an outlàw, <br>And take me to my bow. <br>Wherefore adieu, mine own heart true! <br>None other rede I can: <br>For I must to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.O Lord, what is this worldis bliss, <br>That changeth as the moon! <br>My summer's day in lusty May <br>Is darked before the noon. <br>I hear you say, farewell: Nay, nay, <br>We dèpart not so soon. <br>Why say ye so? whither will ye go? <br>Alas! what have ye done? <br>All my welfàre to sorrow and care <br>Should change, if ye were gone: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.I can believe it shall you grieve, <br>And somewhat you distrain; <br>But afterward, your paines hard <br>Within a day or twain <br>Shall soon aslake; and ye shall take <br>Comfort to you again. <br>Why should ye ought? for, to make thought, <br>Your labour were in vain. <br>And thus I do; and pray you to, <br>As hartely as I can: <br>For I must to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Now, sith that ye have showed to me <br>The secret of your mind, <br>I shall be plain to you again, <br>Like as ye shall me find. <br>Sith it is so that ye will go, <br>I will not live behind. <br>Shall never be said the Nut-brown Maid <br>Was to her love unkind. <br>Make you ready, for so am I, <br>Although it were anone: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Yet I you rede to take good heed <br>What men will think and say: <br>Of young, of old, it shall be told <br>That ye be gone away <br>Your wanton will for to fulfil, <br>In green-wood you to play; <br>And that ye might for your delight <br>No longer make delay <br>Rather than ye should thus for me <br>Be called an ill womàn <br>Yet would I to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Though it be sung of old and young <br>That I should be to blame, <br>Theirs be the charge that speak so large <br>In hurting of my name: <br>For I will prove that faithful love <br>It is devoid of shame; <br>In your distress and heaviness<br>To part with you the same: <br>And sure all tho that do not so <br>True lovers are they none: <br>For in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.I counsel you, Remember how <br>It is no maiden's law <br>Nothing to doubt, but to run out <br>To wood with an outlàw. <br>For ye must there in your hand bear <br>A bow ready to draw; <br>And as a thief thus must you live <br>Ever in dread and awe; <br>Whereby to you great harm might grow: <br>Yet had I liever than <br>That I had to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.I think not nay but as ye say; <br>It is no maiden's lore; <br>But love may make me for your sake, <br>As I have said before, <br>To come on foot, to hunt and shoot, <br>To get us meat and store; <br>For so that I your company <br>May have, I ask no more. <br>From which to part it maketh my heart <br>As cold as any stone; <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.For an outlàw this is the law, <br>That men him take and bind: <br>Without pitie, hangèd to be, <br>And waver with the wind. <br>If I had need (as God forbede!) <br>What socours could ye find? <br>Forsooth I trow, you and your bow <br>For fear would draw behind. <br>And no mervail; for little avail <br>Were in your counsel than: <br>Wherefore I'll to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Right well know ye that women be <br>But feeble for to fight; <br>No womanhede it is, indeed, <br>To be bold as a knight: <br>Yet in such fear if that ye were <br>With enemies day and night, <br>I would withstand, with bow in hand, <br>To grieve them as I might, <br>And you to save; as women have <br>From death men many one: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Yet take good hede; for ever I drede <br>That ye could not sustain <br>The thorny ways, the deep vallèys, <br>The snow, the frost, the rain, <br>The cold, the heat; for dry or wete, <br>We must lodge on the plain; <br>And, us above, no other roof <br>But a brake bush or twain: <br>Which soon should grieve you, I believe; <br>And ye would gladly than <br>That I had to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Sith I have here been partynere <br>With you of joy and bliss, <br>I must alsò part of your woe <br>Endure, as reason is: <br>Yet I am sure of one pleasùre, <br>And shortly it is this— <br>That where ye be, me seemeth, pardé, <br>I could not fare amiss. <br>Without more speech I you beseech <br>That we were shortly gone; <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.If ye go thyder, ye must consider, <br>When ye have lust to dine, <br>There shall no meat be for to gete, <br>Nether bere, ale, ne wine, <br>Ne shetès clean, to lie between, <br>Made of thread and twine; <br>None other house, but leaves and boughs, <br>To cover your head and mine. <br>Lo, mine heart sweet, this ill diète <br>Should make you pale and wan: <br>Wherefore I'll to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Among the wild deer such an archère,<br>As men say that ye be, <br>Ne may not fail of good vitayle <br>Where is so great plentè: <br>And water clear of the rivere <br>Shall be full sweet to me; <br>With which in hele I shall right wele <br>Endure, as ye shall see; <br>And, or we go, a bed or two <br>I can provide anone; <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Lo yet, before, ye must do more, <br>If ye will go with me: <br>As, cut your hair up by your ear, <br>Your kirtle by the knee; <br>With bow in hand for to withstand <br>Your enemies, if need be: <br>And this same night, before daylight, <br>To woodward will I flee. <br>If that ye will all this fulfil,<br>Do it shortly as ye can: <br>Else will I to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.I shall as now do more for you <br>Than 'longeth to womanhede; <br>To short my hair, a bow to bear, <br>To shoot in time of need. <br>O my sweet mother! before all other <br>For you I have most drede! <br>But now, adieu! I must ensue <br>Where fortune doth me lead. <br>All this make ye: Now let us flee; <br>The day cometh fast upon: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Nay, nay, not so; ye shall not go, <br>And I shall tell you why— <br>Your appetite is to be light <br>Of love, I well espy: <br>For, right as ye have said to me,<br>In likewise hardily <br>Ye would answere whosoever it were, <br>In way of company: <br>It is said of old, Soon hot, soon cold; <br>And so is a womàn: <br>Wherefore I to the wood will go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.If ye take heed, it is no need <br>Such words to say to me; <br>For oft ye prayed, and long assayed, <br>Or I loved you, pardè: <br>And though that I of ancestry <br>A baron's daughter be, <br>Yet have you proved how I you loved, <br>A squire of low degree; <br>And ever shall, whatso befall <br>To die therefore anone; <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.A baron's child to be beguiled, <br>It were a cursèd deed! <br>To be felàw with an outlaw— <br>Almighty God forbede! <br>Yet better were the poor squyere <br>Alone to forest yede <br>Than ye shall say another day <br>That by my cursèd rede <br>Ye were betrayed. Wherefore, good maid, <br>The best rede that I can, <br>Is, that I to the green-wood go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Whatever befall, I never shall <br>Of this thing be upbraid: <br>But if ye go, and leave me so, <br>Then have ye me betrayed. <br>Remember you wele, how that ye dele; <br>For if ye, as ye said, <br>Be so unkind to leave behind <br>Your love, the Nut-brown Maid, <br>Trust me truly that I shall die<br>Soon after ye be gone: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.If that ye went, ye should repent; <br>For in the forest now <br>I have purveyed me of a maid <br>Whom I love more than you: <br>Another more fair than ever ye were <br>I dare it well avow; <br>And of you both each should be wroth <br>With other, as I trow: <br>It were mine ease to live in peace; <br>So will I, if I can: <br>Wherefore I to the wood will go, <br>Alone, a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.Though in the wood I understood <br>Ye had a paramour, <br>All this may nought remove my thought, <br>But that I will be your': <br>And she shall find me soft and kind <br>And courteis every hour; <br>Glad to fulfil all that she will <br>Command me, to my power: <br>For had ye, lo, an hundred mo, <br>Yet would I be that one: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Mine own dear love, I see the prove <br>That ye be kind and true; <br>Of maid, of wife, in all my life, <br>The best that ever I knew. <br>Be merry and glad; be no more sad; <br>The case is changèd new; <br>For it were ruth that for your truth <br>Ye should have cause to rue. <br>Be not dismayed, whatsoever I said <br>To you when I began: <br>I will not to the green-wood go; <br>I am no banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She.These tidings be more glad to me <br>Than to be made a queen, <br>If I were sure they should endure; <br>But it is often seen <br>When men will break promise they speak <br>The wordis on the splene. <br>Ye shape some wile me to beguile, <br>And steal from me, I ween: <br>Then were the case worse than it was, <br>And I more wo-begone: <br>For, in my mind, of all mankind <br>I love but you alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He.Ye shall not nede further to drede: <br>I will not disparàge <br>You (God defend), sith you descend <br>Of so great a linàge. <br>Now understand: to Westmoreland, <br>Which is my heritage, <br>I will you bring; and with a ring, <br>By way of marriàge <br>I will you take, and lady make, <br>As shortly as I can: <br>Thus have you won an Earles son, <br>And not a banished man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here may ye see that women be <br>In love meek, kind, and stable; <br>Let never man reprove them than, <br>Or call them variable; <br>But rather pray God that we may <br>To them be comfortable; <br>Which sometime proveth such as He loveth, <br>If they be charitable. <br>For sith men would that women should <br>Be meek to them each one; <br>Much more ought they to God obey, <br>And serve but Him alone</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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