> so why did Robert Chambers; John Chappell (Roxburghe), John Ashton and Frank Sidgwick all have "take."

Roxburghe prefers "take" but allows "talk" as an alternative reading.

Conceivably Percy altered "take" to "talk" to make the situation rather less erotic. No way to know. Oral tradition could have changed either to the other, and more than once.

Presumably the Roxburghe text is the most earliest and most authoritative.