C. K. Sharpe’s Letters, ed. Allardyce, II, 106 (1813).

‘O come you from the earth?’ she said,

‘Or come you from the skye?’

‘Oh, I am from yonder churchyard,

Where my crumbling relicks lie.’

Sharpe somewhere asks, Where does this belong?

Possibly in some version of ‘Proud Lady Margaret,’ No 47, II, 425.


MS. of Thomas Wilkie, p. 79, “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 73 a, Abbotsford.