An’ that’s the road to hell.’
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ALLISON GROSS
The Text is that of the Jamieson-Brown MS.
The Story is one of the countless variations of the French ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid, enamoured of a youth, and by him scorned, turned him into a snake till he should find another love as fair as she.
The feature of this ballad is that the queen of the fairies should have power to undo the evil done by a witch.
ALLISON GROSS
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O Allison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r,