C is translated by Gerhard, p. 192.

A

Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish Ballads, p. 35; “taken down from the recitation of a gentleman in Liddesdale.”

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A fair young may went up the street,

Some white-fish for to buy,

And a bonnie clerk’s faen in love wi her,

And he’s followed her by and by, by,

And he’s followed her by and by.

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