The Huntsmans Delight.
Or, The Forresters Pleasure.
The Dear are wounded but they are not slain
Yet so they're wounded that they are or'etain
And in their taking pitty it is shown
For why 'twas thought that some there was with Fawn.
The Keepers swore great Oaths upon their lives
They'd be as kind to them as men are to their Wives
The pleasant sport this Ditty doth declare
Of the kind Huntsmen and the Fallow Dear
Tune of Amongst the leaves so green a. By J. M.
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COme all you young Maidens & lend an Ear
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Come listen a while and you shall hear,
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How the Keepers did sport with the fallow deer
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Amongst the leaves so green a.
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Hey down derry derry down
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Hey down down, ho down down,
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Hey down ho down derry derry down
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Amongst the leaves so green a,
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The Keepers they would an a Hunting go,
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And under their coats each carryed his bow,
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And all for to shoot the bonny bonny Doe,
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Amongst the leaves [so green a],
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Hey down derry derry down,
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Hey down down ho down down,
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Hey down ho down derry derry down
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Amongst the leaves so green a.
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They spyed five Does upon a hill,
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And to shoot at them was their good will
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But none of them they meant for to kill
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Amongst the leaves so green a.
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Hey down etc.
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At the first Doe they shot and they mist
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The second doe they clipt and they kist
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And they laid them down where no man wist
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Amongst the leaves so green a.
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The one cryed out unto the other
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I am serv'd as my Father servd my Mother
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All the fear of their taking this joy did smother
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Amongst the Leaves so green a.
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Hey down. etc.
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The third Doe she made great moan
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Because that she was big with Fawn
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Which made her to go weeping home
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From amongst the Leaves so green a
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Hey down, etc.
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The fourth Doe could no longer stay,
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But she must be gone her way
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For fear that the Keepers should her lay
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Amongst the Leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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But soon after she did repent
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And to turn again she was fully bent
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To lie down and take her hearts content
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amongst the Leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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The fift Doe leapt over the stile
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But the Keeper he caught her by the heel
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And there he did both kiss and feel
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amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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He pricked her straight with his dart
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But she cryed out she felt no smart
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And therein lay the Keepers art,
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amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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These fair Does they leapt and they skipt
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Till leaping along at length they were tript
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No sooner they fell but the Keepers them clipt
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amongst the Leaves so green a
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Hey down, etc.
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These bold Huntsmen were all agreed
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And by consent these fare Does did bleed
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But after that came often to feed
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amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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Great crouds came running over the Plain
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Expecting to see these fair Does slain
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But like fools as they came, they returnd again
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From amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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If it be true as old wives say
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Take a Doe in the Month of May
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And a Forresters courage he soon will allay
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amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down, etc.
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These Huntsmen were so gently inclind
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They let them rise their courage to find
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But away they tript so sweet as the wind
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From amongst the leaves so green a,
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Hey down derry derry down
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Hey down down ho down down
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Hey down ho down derry derry down
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Amongst the Leaves so green a.
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