He’s taen her by the milk-white hand
An by the grass-green sleeve,
He’s laid her doon at the fit o a bush,
An neer ance speired her leave.
112. The Baffled Knight.
P. 480 a, 4th paragraph. ‘The Politick Maid’ was entered to Thomas Lambert, 16th May, 1637: Arber, Stationers’ Registers, IV, 385.
481 b, III, 518 a, IV, 495 a. Tears. ‘Chasseur, mon beau chasseur,’ Pineau, Le Folk-Lore du Poitou, p. 251.
Varieties. ‘La jolie Couturière,’ Pineau, p. 285.
483 b. ‘La jolie Batelière,’ Romania, XIII, 410; La Tradition, VII, 110.