354, IV, 481 f.

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‘The Prickly Bush,’ Mr Heywood Sumner, in English County Songs, by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland, p. 112. From Somersetshire.

1

‘O hangman, hold thy hand,’ he cried,

‘O hold thy hand awhile,

For I can see my own dear father

Coming over yonder stile.

2

‘O father, have you brought me gold?