20. The Cruel Mother.
P. 218 b. Danish. ‘I dølgsmål,’ Kristensen, Skattegraveren, V, 98, No 644; corrupted.
(N, O should be O, P, II, 500: see I, 504.)
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‘The Cruel Mother,’ Shropshire Folk-Lore, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, 1883–86, p. 540; “sung by Eliza Wharton and brothers, children of gipsies, habitually travelling in North Shropshire and Staffordshire, 13th July, 1885.”
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There was a lady, a lady of York,
Ri fol i diddle i gee wo
She fell a-courting in her own father’s park.
Down by the greenwood side, O