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The Nut-brown Maid. A Poem. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Written three hundred years since	A
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Be it right or wrong these men among	B
On women do complayne	C
Affyrmynge this how that it is	D
A labour spent in vaine	C
To love them wele for never a dele	E
They love a man againe	C
For lete a man do what he can	C
Ther favour to attayne	C
Yet yf a new do them pursue	F
Ther furst trew lover than	C
Laboureth for nought for from her thought	G
He is a banishyd man	C
I say not nay but that all day	H
It is bothe writ and sayde	H
That woman's fayth is as who saythe	I
All utterly decayed	H
But nevertheless right good witness	J
I' this case might be layde	H
That they love trewe and continew	C
Record the Nut brown Mayde	H
Which from her love whan her to prove	K
He came to make his mone	C
Wold not depart for in her herte	H
She lovyd but him alone	C
Than betweene us lettens discusse	J
What was all the maner	L
Between them two we wyl also	J
Telle all the peyne and fere	L
That she was in Now I begynne	C
So that ye me answere	L
Wherefore all ye that present be	M
I pray ye give an eare	L
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Man	C
I am the knyght I come by nyght	H
As secret as I can	C
Saying alas thus standeth the case	J
I am a banishyd man	C
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Woman	C
And I your wylle for to fulfylle	E
In this wyl not refuse	J
Trusting to show in wordis fewe	N
That men have an ill use	J
To ther own shame women to blame	O
And causelese them accuse	J
Therefore to you I answere now	C
Alle women to excuse	J
Myn own herte dere with you what chere	L
I pray you telle anone	C
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	C
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Man	C
It stondeth so a dede is do	H
Wherefore moche harm shall growe	N
My desteny is for to dey	H
A shameful deth I trowe	N
Or ellis to flee the one must be	M
None other way I knowe	N
But to withdrawe as an outlawe	N
And take me to my bowe	N
Wherefore adew my owne herte trewe	N
None other red I can	C
For I must to the grene wode goe	N
Alone a banishyd man	C
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Woman	C
O Lord what is this worldis blysse	J
That chaungeth as the mone	C
My somer's day in lusty May	H
Is derked before the none	C
I here you saye farewell nay nay	H
We departe not soo sone	H
Why say ye so wheder wyl ye goe	N
Alas what have ye done	H
Alle my welfare to sorrow and care	L
Shulde chaung yf ye were gone	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
I can beleve it shall you greeve	K
And shomwhat you distrayne	H
But aftyrwarde your paynes harde	H
Within a day or tweyne	H
Shal sone aslake and ye shal take	P
Comfort to you agayne	H
Why shuld ye nought for to make thought	H
Your labur were in vayne	H
And thus I do and pray you too	H
As hertely as I can	H
For I muste to the greene wode goe	N
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Now sythe that ye have showed to me	M
The secret of your mynde	H
I shal be plaine to you againe	H
Lyke as ye shal me fynde	H
Sythe it is so that ye wyl goe	N
I wol not leve behynde	H
Shal never be sayd the Nut Brown Mayde	H
Was to her love unkynde	H
Make you redy for so am I	Q
Although it were agone	H
For in my mynd of all mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
Yet I you rede to take good hede	H
What men wyl think and sey	J
Of yonge and olde it shall be tolde	H
That ye be gone away	H
Your wanton wylle for to fulfylle	E
In grene wode you to play	E
And that ye myght from your delyte	H
Noo longer make delay	E
Rather than ye shuld thus for me	M
Be called an ylle woman	H
Yet wold I to the grene wode goe	N
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Though it be songe of olde and yonge	R
That I shuld be to blame	O
Thers be the charge that speke so large	R
In hurting of my name	O
For I wyll prove that feythful love	K
It is devoyd of shame	O
In your distress and hevyness	J
To parte wyth you the same	O
And sure all thoo that doo not so	J
Trewe lovers are they none	H
But in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
I counsel you remember how	C
It is noo mayden's lawe	H
Nothing to dought but to renne out	H
To wode with an outlawe	H
For ye must there in your hand bere	L
O bowe redy to drawe	H
And as a theef thus must ye lyve	K
Ever in drede and awe	H
Whereby to you gret harme myght growe	H
Yet I had lever than	H
That I had to the grene wode goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
I think not nay but as ye saye	E
It is noo mayden's lore	L
But love may make me for your sake	P
To com on fote to hunte and shote	H
To get us mete in store	L
For so that I your company	M
May have I ask noo more	L
From whiche to parte it makith myn herte	H
As colde as ony stone	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
For an outlawe this is the lawe	H
That men hym take and binde	H
Wythout pytee hanged to bee	M
And waver with the wynde	H
Yf I had neede as God forbede	H
What resons coude ye finde	H
For sothe I trowe ye and your bowe	H
Shuld drawe for fere behynde	H
And noo merveyle for lytel avayle	E
Were in your council than	H
Wherefore I to the wode wyl goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Full well knowe ye that women be	M
But febyl for to fyght	H
Noo woman hede it is in deede	H
To be bold as a knyght	H
Yet in suche fere yf that ye were	L
With enemys day and nyght	H
I wolde withstonde wyth bowe in honde	H
To greve them as I myght	H
And you to save as women have	K
From dethe many one	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
Yet take gude hede for ever I drede	H
That ye coude not sustein	H
The thorney weyes the depe valeis	J
The snowe the frost the reyn	H
The cold the hete for drye or wete	H
We must lodge on the playn	H
And us above noon other rofe	K
But a brake bush or twaine	H
Whiche sone shuld greve you I beleve	K
And ye wolde gladely than	H
That I had to the grene wode goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Sythe I have here been partynere	L
With you of joy and blysse	J
I must also parte of your woo	H
Endure as reson is	J
Yet am I sure of one pleasure	L
And shortly it is this	J
That where ye bee me seemeth par dy	H
I could not fare amyss	J
Without more speche I you beseche	S
That we were soon a gone	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
Yf ye goo thedyr ye must consyder	L
Whan ye have lust to dyne	H
Ther shal no mete be for to gete	H
Nor drink bere ale ne wine	H
Ne shetis clean to lye betwene	H
Made of thred and twyne	H
Noon other house but levys and bowes	J
To kever your head and myn	H
O myn herte swete this ylle dyet	H
Shuld make you pale and wan	H
Wherefore I to the wode wyl goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Among the wylde dere such an archier	L
As men say that ye bee	M
We may not fayle of good vitayle	E
Where is so grete plente	H
And watir cleere of the ryvere	L
Shal be full swete to me	M
With whiche in hele I shal right wele	E
Endure as ye shal see	M
And er we goe a bed or two	H
I can provide anone	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
Loo yet before ye must do more	L
Yf ye wyl go with me	M
As cute your here up by your ere	L
Your curtel by the kneel	E
Wyth bowe in honde for to wythstonde	H
Your enemys yf nede be	M
And this same nyght before daylyght	H
To wode ward wyl I flee	M
And yf ye wylle al this fulfylle	M
Do it shortly as ye can	H
Ellis wyl I to the grene wode goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
I shall as now do more for you	H
Than longeth to womanhede	H
To short my here a bow to bere	L
To shote in tyme of nede	H
O my sweet moder before al other	L
For you have I most drede	H
But now adew I must ensue	H
Where Fortune duth me lede	H
All this make ye and lete us flee	M
The day run fast upon	H
For in my mynde of al mankynde	H
I love but you alone	H
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Man	H
Nay nay not so ye shal not goe	H
And I shal telle ye why	H
Your appetyte is to be light	H
Of love I wele espie	T
For right as ye have sayde to me	M
In lykewise hardely	M
Ye wolde answere whosoever it were	L
In way of company	M
It is sayd of olde Sone hote sone colde	H
And so is a woman	H
Wherefore I to the wode wyl goe	H
Alone a banishyd man	H
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Woman	H
Yf ye take hede yt is noo nede	H
Such wordis to say bee me	M
For o	H