Mediaeval Baebes The Besse Bunting (undrentide) Lyrics

Besse Bunting (undrentide) Lyrics

Lyrics (15th Century English)

Translation



In Aprell and in
May,

In the months of April and May



When hartes be all
mery,

When all hearts are merry,



Besse Bunting, the millaris
may,

Bessie Bunting, the miller's girl,



Withe lippes so red
as chery,

With lips red as cherries -



She cast in hir
remembrance

She recalls to mind



To passe hir time in
daliance

She should spend her time in love-making



And to
leve hir thought driery.

And leave dreary thoughts behind her.



Right womanly arayd

In her maidenly dress,



In a peticote
of whit,

In a petticoat white,



She was nothing dismayd -

Nothing dismayed her:



Hir countenance was full light.

Her
countenance was light.