The Nut-brown Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFBGFHF IJKJGJGJLMJM GNGNONPNJFGF DGGGQGRGNRJR GNJNPNGRGRNR GRIRIRNRNRJR SRJRTRJRGRNR PJRJNJJJJRJR JIJIDDJDPRNR AQUQVQIQIRJR RDJ NDWXIRIR INTNJNPNJRJR DJPJJJRJDRIR PJJJNJJJYRJR JRIRJRZRSRIR NIIINIJIA2RJR NRJRRRIRJRIR NJDSNJDJ RJR NJNJJJJJJRIR JNJNJ JJRJR IJJJJJNJJRIR JJJSJJJJJRJR JJJJJJJJJRIR JJIJJJJJJRJR JRJ JRKIIRIR JIJIJIJIIRJR SISIJIKIJRIR JRIRB2RJRIRJR JUJUJUC2UTRRR JJRJJJKJJRJRHe Be it right or wrong these men among | A |
On women do complain | B |
Affirming this how that it is | C |
A labour spent in vain | B |
To love them wele for never a dele | D |
They love a man again | E |
For let a man do what he can | F |
Their favour to attain | B |
Yet if a new to them pursue | G |
Their first true lover than | F |
Laboureth for naught for from her thought | H |
He is a banished man | F |
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She I say not nay but that all day | I |
It is both written and said | J |
That woman's faith is as who saith | K |
All utterly decayd | J |
But nevertheless right good witn egrave ss | G |
In this case might be laid | J |
That they love true and continue | G |
Record the Nut brown Maid | J |
Which when her love came her to prove | L |
To her to make his moan | M |
Would not depart for in her heart | J |
She loved but him alone | M |
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He Then between us let us discuss | G |
What was all the manere | N |
Between them two we will also | G |
Tell all the pain in fere | N |
That she was in Now I begin | O |
So that ye me answere | N |
Wherefore all ye that present be | P |
I pray you give an ear | N |
I am the Knight I come by night | J |
As secret as I can | F |
Saying Alas thus standeth the case | G |
I am a banished man | F |
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She And I your will for to fulfil | D |
In this will not refuse | G |
Trusting to show in wordes few | G |
That men have an ill use | G |
To their own shame women to blame | Q |
And causeless them accuse | G |
Therefore to you I answer now | R |
All women to excuse | G |
Mine own heart dear with you what cheer | N |
I pray you tell anone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He It standeth so a deed is do | G |
Whereof great harm shall grow | N |
My destiny is for to die | J |
A shameful death I trow | N |
Or else to flee The t' one must be | P |
None other way I know | N |
But to withdraw as an outl agrave w | G |
And take me to my bow | R |
Wherefore adieu mine own heart true | G |
None other rede I can | R |
For I must to the green wood go | N |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She O Lord what is this worldis bliss | G |
That changeth as the moon | R |
My summer's day in lusty May | I |
Is darked before the noon | R |
I hear you say farewell Nay nay | I |
We d egrave part not so soon | R |
Why say ye so whither will ye go | N |
Alas what have ye done | R |
All my welf agrave re to sorrow and care | N |
Should change if ye were gone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He I can believe it shall you grieve | S |
And somewhat you distrain | R |
But afterward your paines hard | J |
Within a day or twain | R |
Shall soon aslake and ye shall take | T |
Comfort to you again | R |
Why should ye ought for to make thought | J |
Your labour were in vain | R |
And thus I do and pray you to | G |
As hartely as I can | R |
For I must to the green wood go | N |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Now sith that ye have showed to me | P |
The secret of your mind | J |
I shall be plain to you again | R |
Like as ye shall me find | J |
Sith it is so that ye will go | N |
I will not live behind | J |
Shall never be said the Nut brown Maid | J |
Was to her love unkind | J |
Make you ready for so am I | J |
Although it were anone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Yet I you rede to take good heed | J |
What men will think and say | I |
Of young of old it shall be told | J |
That ye be gone away | I |
Your wanton will for to fulfil | D |
In green wood you to play | D |
And that ye might for your delight | J |
No longer make delay | D |
Rather than ye should thus for me | P |
Be called an ill wom agrave n | R |
Yet would I to the green wood go | N |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Though it be sung of old and young | A |
That I should be to blame | Q |
Theirs be the charge that speak so large | U |
In hurting of my name | Q |
For I will prove that faithful love | V |
It is devoid of shame | Q |
In your distress and heaviness | I |
To part with you the same | Q |
And sure all tho that do not so | I |
True lovers are they none | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He I counsel you Remember how | R |
It is no maiden's law | D |
Nothing to doubt but to run out | J |
To wood with an outl agrave w | - |
For ye must there in your hand bear | N |
A bow ready to draw | D |
And as a thief thus must you live | W |
Ever in dread and awe | X |
Whereby to you great harm might grow | I |
Yet had I liever than | R |
That I had to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She I think not nay but as ye say | I |
It is no maiden's lore | N |
But love may make me for your sake | T |
As I have said before | N |
To come on foot to hunt and shoot | J |
To get us meat and store | N |
For so that I your company | P |
May have I ask no more | N |
From which to part it maketh my heart | J |
As cold as any stone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He For an outl agrave w this is the law | D |
That men him take and bind | J |
Without pitie hang egrave d to be | P |
And waver with the wind | J |
If I had need as God forbede | J |
What socours could ye find | J |
Forsooth I trow you and your bow | R |
For fear would draw behind | J |
And no mervail for little avail | D |
Were in your counsel than | R |
Wherefore I'll to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Right well know ye that women be | P |
But feeble for to fight | J |
No womanhede it is indeed | J |
To be bold as a knight | J |
Yet in such fear if that ye were | N |
With enemies day and night | J |
I would withstand with bow in hand | J |
To grieve them as I might | J |
And you to save as women have | Y |
From death men many one | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Yet take good hede for ever I drede | J |
That ye could not sustain | R |
The thorny ways the deep vall egrave ys | I |
The snow the frost the rain | R |
The cold the heat for dry or wete | J |
We must lodge on the plain | R |
And us above no other roof | Z |
But a brake bush or twain | R |
Which soon should grieve you I believe | S |
And ye would gladly than | R |
That I had to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Sith I have here been partynere | N |
With you of joy and bliss | I |
I must als ograve part of your woe | I |
Endure as reason is | I |
Yet I am sure of one pleas ugrave re | N |
And shortly it is this | I |
That where ye be me seemeth pard eacute | J |
I could not fare amiss | I |
Without more speech I you beseech | A2 |
That we were shortly gone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He If ye go thyder ye must consider | N |
When ye have lust to dine | R |
There shall no meat be for to gete | J |
Nether bere ale ne wine | R |
Ne shet egrave s clean to lie between | R |
Made of thread and twine | R |
None other house but leaves and boughs | I |
To cover your head and mine | R |
Lo mine heart sweet this ill di egrave te | J |
Should make you pale and wan | R |
Wherefore I'll to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Among the wild deer such an arch egrave re | N |
As men say that ye be | J |
Ne may not fail of good vitayle | D |
Where is so great plent egrave | S |
And water clear of the rivere | N |
Shall be full sweet to me | J |
With which in hele I shall right wele | D |
Endure as ye shall see | J |
And or we go a bed or two | - |
I can provide anone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Lo yet before ye must do more | N |
If ye will go with me | J |
As cut your hair up by your ear | N |
Your kirtle by the knee | J |
With bow in hand for to withstand | J |
Your enemies if need be | J |
And this same night before daylight | J |
To woodward will I flee | J |
If that ye will all this fulfil | J |
Do it shortly as ye can | R |
Else will I to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She I shall as now do more for you | - |
Than 'longeth to womanhede | J |
To short my hair a bow to bear | N |
To shoot in time of need | J |
O my sweet mother before all other | N |
For you I have most drede | J |
But now adieu I must ensue | - |
Where fortune doth me lead | J |
All this make ye Now let us flee | J |
The day cometh fast upon | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Nay nay not so ye shall not go | I |
And I shall tell you why | J |
Your appetite is to be light | J |
Of love I well espy | J |
For right as ye have said to me | J |
In likewise hardily | J |
Ye would answere whosoever it were | N |
In way of company | J |
It is said of old Soon hot soon cold | J |
And so is a wom agrave n | R |
Wherefore I to the wood will go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She If ye take heed it is no need | J |
Such words to say to me | J |
For oft ye prayed and long assayed | J |
Or I loved you pard egrave | S |
And though that I of ancestry | J |
A baron's daughter be | J |
Yet have you proved how I you loved | J |
A squire of low degree | J |
And ever shall whatso befall | J |
To die therefore anone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He A baron's child to be beguiled | J |
It were a curs egrave d deed | J |
To be fel agrave w with an outlaw | J |
Almighty God forbede | J |
Yet better were the poor squyere | J |
Alone to forest yede | J |
Than ye shall say another day | J |
That by my curs egrave d rede | J |
Ye were betrayed Wherefore good maid | J |
The best rede that I can | R |
Is that I to the green wood go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Whatever befall I never shall | J |
Of this thing be upbraid | J |
But if ye go and leave me so | I |
Then have ye me betrayed | J |
Remember you wele how that ye dele | J |
For if ye as ye said | J |
Be so unkind to leave behind | J |
Your love the Nut brown Maid | J |
Trust me truly that I shall die | J |
Soon after ye be gone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He If that ye went ye should repent | J |
For in the forest now | R |
I have purveyed me of a maid | J |
Whom I love more than you | - |
Another more fair than ever ye were | J |
I dare it well avow | R |
And of you both each should be wroth | K |
With other as I trow | I |
It were mine ease to live in peace | I |
So will I if I can | R |
Wherefore I to the wood will go | I |
Alone a banished man | R |
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She Though in the wood I understood | J |
Ye had a paramour | I |
All this may nought remove my thought | J |
But that I will be your' | I |
And she shall find me soft and kind | J |
And courteis every hour | I |
Glad to fulfil all that she will | J |
Command me to my power | I |
For had ye lo an hundred mo | I |
Yet would I be that one | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Mine own dear love I see the prove | S |
That ye be kind and true | I |
Of maid of wife in all my life | S |
The best that ever I knew | I |
Be merry and glad be no more sad | J |
The case is chang egrave d new | I |
For it were ruth that for your truth | K |
Ye should have cause to rue | I |
Be not dismayed whatsoever I said | J |
To you when I began | R |
I will not to the green wood go | I |
I am no banished man | R |
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She These tidings be more glad to me | J |
Than to be made a queen | R |
If I were sure they should endure | I |
But it is often seen | R |
When men will break promise they speak | B2 |
The wordis on the splene | R |
Ye shape some wile me to beguile | J |
And steal from me I ween | R |
Then were the case worse than it was | I |
And I more wo begone | R |
For in my mind of all mankind | J |
I love but you alone | R |
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He Ye shall not nede further to drede | J |
I will not dispar agrave ge | U |
You God defend sith you descend | J |
Of so great a lin agrave ge | U |
Now understand to Westmoreland | J |
Which is my heritage | U |
I will you bring and with a ring | C2 |
By way of marri agrave ge | U |
I will you take and lady make | T |
As shortly as I can | R |
Thus have you won an Earles son | R |
And not a banished man | R |
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Here may ye see that women be | J |
In love meek kind and stable | J |
Let never man reprove them than | R |
Or call them variable | J |
But rather pray God that we may | J |
To them be comfortable | J |
Which sometime proveth such as He loveth | K |
If they be charitable | J |
For sith men would that women should | J |
Be meek to them each one | R |
Much more ought they to God obey | J |
And serve but Him alone | R |
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