With a cowardly cruel blow,
And threw her pretty baby
To the dank moat below.
8
John Lankin was hung
On the gallows so high,
And the nurse she was chained
In a dungeon to die.
95. The Maid freed from the Gallows.
P. 346 f., III, 516 a, IV, 481 a, V, 231 a. Michele Barbi, Poesia popolare pistoiese, p. 9, found a fragment of Scibilia Nobili at Plan dagli Ontani under the name of Violina, and Giannini’s ‘Prigioniera’ (III, 516 a), otherwise ‘Mosettina,’ under the name Violina,’ ‘Brunetta,’ etc.