Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

[Verse 1] Come all you fair and tender girls That flourish in your prime Beware, beware, with your garden fair Let no man steal your thyme [Refrain] Let no man steal your thyme [Verse 2] For woman is a branchy tree And man, a clinging vine And from her branches carelessly He'll take what he can find [Refrain] He'll take what he can find [Verse 3] When your thyme, it is passed and spared He'll care no more for you And every place where your chance was waste Shall spread all over with rue [Refrain] Shall spread all over with rue [Verse 1] Come all you fair and tender girls That flourish in your prime Beware, beware, with your garden fair Let no man steal your thyme [Refrain] Let no man steal your thyme