P. 219 b. Add to the German versions: M, O. Knoop, Volkssagen, Erzählungen, u. s. w., aus dem östlichen Hinterpommern, Posen, 1885, pp. x, xi: 'Es trieb ein Schäfer mit Lämmlein raus.' Fr. Schönwerth, Aus der Oberpfalz, I, 234, gives a prose tale which is evidently founded on the ballad of 'The Cruel Mother' (three children, one in the water, one in dung, one in the wood). R. Köhler.
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Percy Papers, with no account of the derivation.
1 There was a duke's daughter lived at York,
All alone and alone a
And she fell in love with her father's clarke.
Down by the greenwood side a, side a,
Down, etc.
2 She loved him seven long years and a day,
Till at last she came big-bellied away.
3 She set her back against a thorn,
And there she had two pretty babes born.
4 She took out a penknife long and short,
And she pierc'd these pretty babes to the tender heart.
5 So as she was walking in her father's hall,
She saw three pretty babes playing at ball.
6 The one was clothed in purple, the other in pall,
And the other was cloathed in no cloths at all.