Go From My Window

1. Go from my window, Love, go;
Go from my window, my dear;
The wind and the rain
Will drive you back again,
You cannot be lodged here.

2. Begone, my Juggy, my Puggy;
Begone, my Love, my Dear;
The weather is warm,
‘Twill do you no harm,
Thou canst be lodged here.


Found in “English Songs and Ballads” compiled by Crosland in 1902. According to William Chappell, the tune was very popular in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.   The earliest reference with the text appears to be in Beaumont and Fletcher’s 1611  play, “Knight of the Burning Pestle.”  The version of the text here appears to be related to a 1638 stage song, “Arise, arise, my Juggie, my Puggie”.. Willie calls on Juggie to let him in because “the weather is cold, it blowes, it snowes”; Juggie answers that “the weather is warme, ‘twill do thee no harm ... thou canst not be lodged here”; when Willie prepares to leave Juggie relents: “the weather doth change ... thou shalt be lodged here.”