HAM/05/32/24	Nobleman's Lady
HAM-02-236.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-01-558.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
HAM-05-063.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-064.gif	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-236.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[page numbered with, printed in top right corner:] 31
[left of title:] 525
[title:] 'Nobleman & Maid'
[right of title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[left of first stave, bracketed:]
Dorian \
        > ??
Aeolian/
[at end of last stave:] Words D VI p 120
[below last stave:] cp. tunes 373 & 388 [unclear]

HAM-01-558.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
[since there is no title, or introduction to the heroine, I suspect the song begins on frame HAM-01-557.gif - PJH]
[the top verse on the right (recto) leaf I have called verse 1]
[page numbered by hand in top right corner:] 130
[opposite v1, on verso leaf:]
	D792		Russell.
One evening her master came to her
A-playing & talking with glee
Many rich presents he gave her
'Oh! come pretty Nancy, love me.'
[verse 1:]
One morning her master went to her
To play & toy at her knee
"Here is many fine present I'll give you
If you can but love me," said he
[verse 2:]
Oh! master, I should wonder much at you
A man that is agèd & grey
To have such long desire
A poor innocent maid to betray
[on verso, opposite line 3 of verse 2:]
longing desire
[on verso, starting one line before verse 3:]
If I should prove with child by my master
And he that  same thing should deny
Then my pretty babe it must suffer
While I in some prison must lie
[verse 3:]
Oh! Nancy you can go to your mammy
That now lives in fair Glo'stershire
And if your baby you murder
There's no-one will know it, my dear
[verse 4:]
Oh! Master, I wont trust you nor love you
Nor no other man in this place
What matter one night to lie by me
You'll bring me to shame and disgrace
[verse 5:]
When he found that he could not delude her
Oh straight to the Church they did go
He made her a nobleman's Lady
5000 a year she enjoy

HAM-05-063.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
[left of title:] 528
[title:] Nobleman's Lady
[on label below and right of title:] D792
[right of label:]			Mrs Russell,
					Upwey
[initialled below and after end of tune:] FEP

HAM-05-064.gif	Purslow's transcription - words
THE NOBLEMAN'S LADY.
[written on label below title:] D792
[below label:]
Note-book D.VI. p.l50.	Mrs. Marina Russell,
				Upwey, Dorset.
				Jan/Feb. 1907.

It appears, although it is not certain, that Mrs.
Russell's text followed closely that of Edith
Sarton (D.596). The following differences are noted
by Hammond in the note-book:

2nd. verse:
One evening her master came to her,
A-playing and talking with glee,
Many rich presents he gave her,
"Oh! come, pretty Nancy, love me."

3rd. verse:
"longing desire" in place of Sarton's "long desire."

4th. verse: (coming apparently between Mrs. Sarton's
			3rd. and 4th. verses)
If I should prove with child by my master,
And he that same thing should deny,
Then my pretty babe it must suffer,
While I in some prison must lie.

[this sheet not initialled]

[This material prepared by P J Headford, Nov 2010]