P. [310] b, last paragraph, eleventh line. After Wunderhorn, etc., insert: 'Von der jungen Markgräfin,' Seckendorf's Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1808, p. 23.
[93. Lamkin.]
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'Bloody Lambkin,' communicated by Mr Macmath ea derived from his aunt, Miss Jane Webster, who learned it from her aunt, Minnie Spark, Kirkcudbrightshire.
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1 And it was weel built,
without and within,
Except a little hole,
to let Bloody Lambkin come in.
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2 He stabbed her young son,
wi the silver bodkin,
Till oot o the cradle
the reed blude did rin.
3 'Oh still my babe, nourrice,
still him wi the keys:'
'He'll no be still, madam,
let me do what I please.'