“After nearly sixty years my memory is not altogether trustworthy, and I am not altogether sure how far I have mixed up my childish recollections with later forms of the ballad which I have read.”
The singer tagged on to this fragment version c of The Maid freed from the Gallows, given at II, 352.
b.
13. For all.
31. it wanting.
41. him in.
44. And wiled the young thing in.
5. wanting.
61. him in through one dark door.
62. she has.