P. [174]. Add to the Spanish and Italian ballad: 'Les trois Clercs,' Decombe, as above, p. 267, No 93; 'Les trois Écoliers,' Mélusine, I, col. 243 f; 'La Légende de Pontoise' (corrupted), Poésies p. de la France, MS., I, fol. 82, Mélusine, II, 18 f.
[73. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet.]
P. [179] b. F. After Kinloch MSS, III, 127, insert: and Dr John Hill Burton's papers.
[182]. Green and blue.
"Oh green's forsaken,
And yellow's forsworn,
And blue's the sweetest
Color that's worn."
This is given (apropos of an emerald engagement-ring) as a popular rhyme in William Black's Three Feathers, chap. ix. The scene is in Cornwall.
"Then shall ye were a shelde of blewe,
In token ye shall be trewe,"
says the king's daughter of Hungary in the Squyr of Lowe Degre, vv. 205, 206, Ritson, III, 153. See Rochholz, Altdeutsches Bürgerleben, pp. 277, 278. G. L. K.