Tam Lin) and But this ladye is gone to her chamber, Her maydens following bright.
XVII But this ladye is gone to her chamber, Her maydens following bright; And Sir Cawline’s gone to the mores soe broad, For to wake there all night.
About his breist scho plet her handis; (Luvand be maydens quhan thai lyke.
Nevir ane word that ladie spak; (Mim be maydens men besyde.
The teares that her fayre maydens shed, Ran free from their brighte eyes; The ecchoing wynde that then dyd blowe, Was burden'd with theyre sighes.
Her maydens came and strove to cheare, But in vaine was all their care; The townesfolke wept to see that ladye Soe 'whelm'd in dreade despare.
The maydens say nay thereto / but that it was theyr fathers mynde that they shulde haue euery of theym an .
See The discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession by the devyl in two maydens within the Citie of London; see also Holinshed, Chronicles, ed.
See the black letter pamphlet, The discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession by the devyl in two maydens within the Citie of London [1574].
The discloysing of a late counterfeyted possession by the devyl in two maydens within the Citie of London.
Than came the maydens forth/ ad dyd their obaysaunce.
And he put the maydens ad their childern formest/ ad Lea and hir childern after/ and Rahel ad Ioseph hindermost.
Bishop Spofford writes: "Wee ordayne and charge you under payne of unobedyence that no suster hald nor receyfe ony surgyner, man or woman weddyd, other maydens of lawful age to be wedded, knave chyldren aboven eght yeer of age.
Or welkyn[114] & her starres wyll take a maydens parte.
On everych Seynctes hie daie Wythe the mynstrelle[67] am I seene, 80 All a footeynge it awaie, Wythe maydenson the greene.
This mayde up-on a day wente in the toun Toward a temple, with hir moder dere, As is of yonge maydens the manere.
Shamfast she was in maydens shamfastnesse, 55 Constant in herte, and ever in bisinesse To dryve hir out of ydel slogardye.
Now sith that maydens hadden swich despyt 1395 To been defouled with mannes foul delyt, Wel oghte a wyf rather hir-selven slee Than be defouled, as it thinketh me.
The sevene maydens of Milesie also Han slayn hem-self, for verray drede and wo, 1410 Rather than folk of Gaule hem sholde oppresse.
The Weavers will dine at the Shuttle, The Glovers will unto the Glove, The Maydensall to the Mayden Head, And true Louers unto the Doue.
I counsel yow remembre how It is noo maydens lawe, Nothing to dought, but to renne out To wod with an outlawe.
With that the wedding-day was stayd, The bryde went vnmarryed home againe; Then to her maydens ffast shee loughe, And in her hart shee was ffull ffaine.
And his lady stood a litle thereby, Ffast ringing her hands: 'For the maydens loue that you haue most minde, Smyte you my lord no more.
But and you be sicke, my owne wed lord, Soe sore it greiueth mee; But my fiue maydens and my selfe Will goe and make your bedd.
Till itt beffell vpon a day, Great dill to him was dight; The maydens loue remoued his mind, To care-bed went the knight.
And one while he spread his armes him ffroe, And cryed soe pittyouslye: 'Ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde This day may comfort mee, Or else ere noone I shalbe dead!
But this ladye is gone to her chamber, Her maydens ffollowing bright, And Sir Cawlin's gone to the mores soe broad, Ffor to wake there all night.
Yet in a fine Net, That a Spider set, 50 The Maydens had caught him; Had she not beene neere him, And chanced to heare him, More good they had taught him.
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