Sunday, May 20, 2012

Are you going to Scarborough fair -- 1660

Speranza 1660 are you going to Scarborough fair parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme remember me to one who lives there for once she was a true love of mine. tell her to make me a cambric shirt, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; without any seam or needlework, then she shall be a true lover of mine. tell her to wash it in yonder well, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; where never spring water or rain ever fell, and she shall be a true lover of mine. tell her to dry it on yonder thorn, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; which never bore blossom since Adam was born, then she shall be a true lover of mine. now he has asked me questions three, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; I hope he'll answer as many for me before he shall be a true lover of mine. tell him to buy me an acre of land, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; betwixt the salt water and the sea sand, then he shall be a true lover of mine. tell him to plough it with a ram's horn, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; and sow it all over with one pepper corn, and he shall be a true lover of mine. tell him to shear it with a sickle of leather, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; and bind it up with a peacock feather. and he shall be a true lover of mine. tell him to thrash it on yonder wall, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, and never let one corn of it fall, then he shall be a true lover of mine. when he has done and finished his work. parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme: oh, tell him to come and he'll have his shirt, and he shall be a true lover of mine.

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