The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

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A 8 is borrowed from ‘The Douglas Tragedy,’ see No 7, C 9. B 14^3,4 is a commonplace, which, in inferior traditional ballads, is often, as here, an out-of-place. B 15, 16 is another commonplace, of the silly sort: see No 87, B 3, 4, D 4, 5, and Buchan’s ‘Lady Isabel,’ 20, 21.

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A

a. Motherwell’s MS., p. 407; from the recitation of Mrs Parkhill, Maxweltown, 28 September, 1825 (with variations, furnished by another person of the same neighborhood, interlined). b. Motherwell’s MS., p. 71; from Miss ——, Glasgow.

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Lord Thomas is to the hunting gone,

To hunt the fallow deer;

Lady Margaret’s to the greenwood shaw,

To see her lover hunt there.

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