EEBO link.
I'm pausing over this ballad (back to Wood E 25) because it uses one woodcut that's almost identical to one in "A Letter for a Christian Family." But even though these woodcuts are strikingly similar, they're not identical. For instance, the woodcut in "The Fair Maid" has unornamented shirt-cuffs, whereas the woodcut in "A Letter" has ruffled shirt-cuffs. I can't quite understand why these two images are so similar, yet different.
By the by, the naked bathing lady in "The Fair Made" also appears (sideways) in "The musical Shepeherdess", though she's up-staged by a dancing dog. EEBO link.
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