The Country Mans Paradice.
See George and Nell that Love full well
say kissing is no Vice,
The Country and making Hay
He calls a PARADICE.
To the Tune of Philander.
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NOw Sols bright shining beams
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dryes up the Watery Flood,
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Hay Harvest will draw near,
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it is well understood.
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Then I with Nell do know full well,
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some youthful trick must play,
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And lay her down upon the ground
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as we are making Hay.
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And when the Parching heat
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doth force us to give o're,
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We to the Shades retreat,
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and there we'l o're and o're
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Repeat the favours we have shown
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at several times at play,
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Which to ourselves were only known,
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When we were making Hay.
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When we are rested well.
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we to our work again,
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I keep close to my Nell,
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my sight she'l not refrain:
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When we to the Lands end do come
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most prettily we play,
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Her Waist I clip and kiss her Lip
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as we are making Hay.
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ANd at the Evening tide,
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our days-work we do cock,
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If we are not espied,
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then I take up her smock:
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And what doth after follow then
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I am asham'd to say,
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But thus we do I tell to you
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as we do make the Hay.
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If she doth prove with Child,
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as she perhaps may do,
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She cries she's then beguil'd,
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perswades me to be true:
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Unknown to any of our Friends
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we married are straitway,
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And none doth know that it was so
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when we were making Hay.
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And thus we carry on
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our Country jests and sport,
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No dread we think upon,
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we value not report;
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Report hath long a Lyar been,
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I have heard many say,
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And now I long till we begin
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again to make the Hay,
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Our Life more pleasure yields,
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and brings to us such sport,
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More pleasure in the Fields
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than in a Princes Court;
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For all the day long from morn to night,
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we merrily do play,
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And thus our hearts we do delight,
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as we are making Hay.
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Before the Sun doth rise,
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we Musick have at will,
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The pretty Lark up flies
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our pleasures to fulfill;
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We with our Bag and Bottle too
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do Feast us every day,
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We hear no strife; this pleasant Life
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we have in making Hay.
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Who then doth not delight
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to lead a Country life,
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Our pains it doth requite,
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each man injoys his wife.
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Yea, hand in hand to labouring work
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they go both night and day,
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And sometimes they together play,
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besides their making Hay.
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No Citizen I say
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can be from care more free,
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Although they go more gay,
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and finer drest then we.
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Such pleasures they but seldom meet,
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as we have every day,
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That walk the Meadows brave and sweet,
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and help to make the Hay.
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