Siobhan Owen - In a Garden So Green (17c Scottish)

Australian singer & harpist Siobhan Owen performing a 17c Scottish ballad at the Port Adelaide Caledonian Club on June 7, 2013. "In a Garden So Green" (with Old Scots word translations; ; '-is' is an affirmative rhyming ending) In a garden so green, in a May morening heard I my lady pleen of paramours. (pleen=complain) Said she, my love so sweet, come you not yet nor yet? Heght you not me to meet amongst the flowrs? (heght=pledge) Elore, elore, I love my lusty love, elore lo. The skies upspringis, the dew down dingis, (upspringis=sun rising, dingis=heavy with dew) the sweet larks singis their hours of prime. (singis=sing) Phoebus upsprentius, joy to rest wentis (Phoebus upsprentius=morning arising, wentis=gone) lost mine intent is and gone's the time, Elore, elore, I love my lusty love, elore lo. Danger my dead is, false fortune my feid is, (dead=dying, feid=foe) langour my leed is, but hope I despair. (langour=dreariness, leed=song) Disdaine my desyris, so strangeness my feir is, (feir=fear) deceit out of weir is, adew I fare. (weir=guard, adew=farewell, fare=endure) Elore, elore, I love my lusty love, elore lo. Then to my lady swyth did I my presence kyth, (swyth=swift, kyth=make) saying, my bird be blyth, am I not yours? (blyth=good, happy) So in my arms two did I the lusty jo and kisst her tymis mo then night hes hours. (tymis=many times, hes=as) Elore, elore, I love my lusty love, elore lo. Live in hope, lady faire and repell all dispaire. Trust not that your true love shall you betrase. (betrase=betray) When deceit and languor banished is from your bowre. (bowre=within) I'll be your paramour and shall you please Elore, elore, I love my lusty love, elore lo.

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