Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) / Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

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FOOTNOTES:

[319] Ver. 31, 35. Swine, PCC.

[320] Alluding to the dole anciently given at funerals.

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V.
BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY.

Given, with some corrections, from an old black letter copy, intitled, Barbara Allen's cruelty, or the young man's tragedy.

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[It is not clear why Percy separated this English version of Barbara Allen from the Scottish version entitled Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan (No. 7).