When your cheeks used to have been so red and rosy
As ever the sun shined on?’
18
‘Are you blind, or don’t you see,
My heart-blood come trickling down to my knee?’
31,2. green and red should be interchanged: cf. 9.
13, 14. Rearranged.
151. said she.
181. Add to the French ballads, ‘La Délaissée,’ V. Smith, Romania, VII, 82; Legrand, Romania, X, 386, No 32; ‘La triste Noce,’ Thiriat, Mélusine, I, 189; and to the Italian ballad, Nigra, No 20, p. 139, ‘Danze e Funerali.’