The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
[125] They pass the water in #Q# only, and that in a boat. She is thrown
in from a bridge in #V#, #W#, the bridge of Cracow in #C#: cf. Scotland
bridge, #D# 2 of this ballad. By a curious accident, it is at a wayside
crucifix that the man begins his change of demeanor in Polish #CC# 2
(Kolberg, #ddd#), as in #B# 5, #E# 7, of this ballad, it is at a
Scottish cross.
10
THE TWA SISTERS
#A. a.# 'The Miller and the King's Daughter,' broadside of
1656, Notes and Queries, 1st S., V, 591. #b.# Wit
Restor'd, 1658, "p. 51," in the reprint of 1817, p. 153.
#c.# 'The Miller and the King's Daughters,' Wit and
Drollery, ed. 1682, p. 87. #d.# 'The Miller and the King's
Daughter,' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 315.
#B. a.# 'The Twa Sisters,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 39.
#b.# 'The Cruel Sister,' Wm. Tytler's Brown MS., No 15.
#c.# 'The Cruel Sister,' Abbotsford MS., "Scottish Songs,"
fol. 21. #d.# 'The Twa Sisters,' Jamieson's Popular
Ballads, I, 48.
#C.# 'The Cruel Sister,' Scott's Minstrelsy, II, 143
(1802).
#D.# 'The Bonnie Milldams of Binnorie,' Kinloch MSS, II,
49.
#E.# 'The Twa Sisters,' Sharpe's Ballad Book, No X, p. 30.
#F.# 'The Bonny Bows o London,' Motherwell's MS., p. 383.
#G.# Motherwell's MS., p. 104.
#H.# Motherwell's MS., p. 147.
#I.# 'Bonnie Milldams o Binnorie,' Kinloch MSS, V, 425.
#J.# 'The Miller's Melody,' Notes and Queries, 4th S., V,
23.
#K.# 'Binnorie,' Kinloch's papers.
#L. a.# 'The Miller's Melody,' Notes and Queries, 1st S.,
V, 316. #b.# 'The Drowned Lady,' The Scouring of the White
Horse, p. 161.
#M.# 'Binorie, O an Binorie,' Murison MS., p. 79.
#N.# 'Binnorie,' [Pinkerton's] Scottish Tragic Ballads, p.
72.
#O.# 'The Bonny Bows o London.' #a.# Buchan's Ballads of
the North of Scotland, II, 128. #b.# Christie's
Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 42.
#P. a.# 'The Twa Sisters,' Motherwell's MS., p. 245. #b.#
'The Swan swims bonnie O,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy,
Appendix, p. xx.
#Q.# 'The Twa Sisters,' communicated by J. F. Campbell,
Esq.
#R. a.# 'The Three Sisters,' Notes and Q., 1st S., VI,
102. #b.# 'Bodown,' communicated by J. F. Campbell, Esq.
#c.# 'The Barkshire Tragedy,' The Scouring of the White
Horse, p. 158.
#S.# Kinloch MSS, VI, 89.
#T.# 'Sister, dear Sister,' Allingham's Ballad Book, p.
xxxiii.
#U.# From Long Island, N.Y., communicated by Mr W. W.
Newell.
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