The North-countrey Maids resolution & love to her Sweetheart.
Her Daddy and Mammy shel rather forsake,
Then be seperated from her loving Mate:
She sold all her Linnen, her Goods and her Geer
And followe her Sweet-heart his Snapsack to bear.
To a pleasant new Northern Tune.
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AS from Newcastle I did pass,
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I heard a blithe and bonny Lass,
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Who in the Scottish Army was,
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Saying, prethee le me gang with thee man,
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Unto a Cavaliero Blade,
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As I suppose, her moan she made,
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For ever more these words she said,
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Ile follow my Cavalilly man,
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O my dainty Cavalilly man,
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My finnikin Cavalilly man,
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For Gods Cause and the Protestants,
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I prethee le me gang with thee man.
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Sweet-heart, quoth she, if thout consent,
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To follow thee my minde is bent,
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Ill strive to give thee all content,
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Then prethee le me gang with thee man;
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Ill sell my Rock and eke my Reel,
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And after that my Spinning wheel,
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To buy my Love a Cap of Speel,
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And follow my Cavalilly man:
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O my dainty, &.
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My Uncle gave me a House and Land,
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Ill selt for money out of hand,
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And all sall be at thy command,
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Then p[r]ethee le me gang with thee man:
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My Mammy gave me a Pot and a Pan,
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My Dady gave me a Yew and a Lamb,
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Yet Is forsake my Dady and Mam,
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To follow my Cavalilly man:
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O my dainty, etc.
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Ile pawn my Kirtle and eke my Gowne,
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Which cost my Mother many a Crowne
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And goe with thee from Town to Town,
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Then prethee le me gang with thee Man:
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Ile sell my Petticoat from my back,
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My Smock and all ere thou shalt lack
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For either Money Beer, or Sack:
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Then prethee le me goe with thee man,
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O my dainty, etc.
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Thy company I love so deere,
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Then rather then Ile tarry here,
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Thy Snapsack on my back Ile beare
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And follow my Cavalilly man,
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Ile sell off all my Hemp and Hards,
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And throw aside my wooll and Cards.
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To march along from gards to gards,
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Then prethee le me goe with thee man.
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O my dainty Cavalilly man,
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My finikin Cavalilly man,
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For Gods Cause and the Protestants,
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prethee le me gang with thee man.
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The second part, to the same tune:
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WHatsoever shall of my selfe betide,
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Where thou shalt either goe or ride,
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Throughout the Kingdom far and wide,
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Ile follow my Cavalilly man:
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I neither care for dirt nor mire,
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Nor marches long my legs to tire,
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Thy company I most desire,
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Then prethee le me goe with thee man,
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O my dainty Cavalilly man;
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My finikin Cavalilly man,
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For Gods Cause and the Protestants,
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I prethee le me goe with thee man.
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For hose and shoes thous want for nean
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Though thy Apparrell be but mean,
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Is wash thee weel and keep thee clean,
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Then prethee le me go with thee man:
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Thou salt have cleath to make thee a sark
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That every yard sall cost a Mark,
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And whether it sall be light or darke,
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Ile follow my Cavalilly man,
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O my dainty, etc.
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Give me thy Musket in my hand.
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And when thy Captain gives command,
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Upon the Centry I will stand,
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In stead of my Cavalilly man:
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Im not afraid of Pistoll shot,
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Nor Cannon bullets burning hot,
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Since that it is my happy lot,
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To follow my Cavalilly man,
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O my dainty, etc,
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Whilst drums are beating loud alarms
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I will be ready in thine arms,
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To keep my love from further harms,
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To follow my Cavalilly man,
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In frost, in Snow, in Hail, and Raine,
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Ore Hill, and Dale, and many a Plaine,
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Ile follow thee through all the Traine,
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Then prethee le me goe with thee man,
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O my dainty, etc.
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And when the Wars are at an end,
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That Is return heam with my Friend,
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Ile worke for means for thee to spend,
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Then prethee le me goe with thee Man,
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Ile buy thee new Apparell gay,
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To wear upon thy Wedding day,
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Then doe not hinder me I pray,
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To follow my Cavalilly man,
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O my dainty,
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The Soldier hearing of her mean,
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Was loath to leave her all alean,
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And she along with him is gean,
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To follow her Cavalilly man:
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She vows that he his part will take,
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And though her life were laid atth stake,
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Sheel rather die then him forsake,
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To follow her Cavalilly man.
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O my dainty Cavalilly man,
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My finnikin Cavalilly man,
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For Gods Cause and the Protestants,
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I prethee le me gang with thee man.
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