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With Ian Scott
Resources The Milkmaid's Song                     Thu 28 Aug,2008
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See Spring Fever, Flyfishing, And Romance.




Can you find the extra verse? As well, Walton paraphrased some of the lines and changed them a bit:

The Milkmaid's Song

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and field,
Or Woods and steepy mountain yield;

Where we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed our flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses,
And then a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle:

A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Slippers lined choicely for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

Thy silver dishes for thy meat,
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall, on an ivory table, be
Prepared each day for thee and me.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning;
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

As sung by The Milk Woman, The Third Day, The Compleat Angler by Izaac Walton.


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