The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)

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5². Praying.

5³. be a.

14². hours but.

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THE MERMAID

A. ‘The Seamen’s Distress,’ the second piece in The Glasgow Lasses Garland, British Museum, 11621. c. 3 (68). “Newcastle, 1765?”

B. a. ‘The stormy winds do blow,’ Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time, p. 742. b. The same, p. 743. c. Notes and Queries, 6th Series, VII, 276.

C. Communicated by Mr Chappell. Now printed in Old English Ditties, Oxenford and Macfarren, ‘The Mermaid,’ I, 206.

D. ‘The Mermaid.’ a. Long, Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, 1886, p. 42. b. Broadside, H. Such, 177 Union St., Boro’.

E. a. Motherwell’s MS., p. 145. b. ‘The Bonnie Mermaid,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xxiii, No XXX, one stanza.