The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
11^1. I am the boy, says one.
11^2. Will win.
13^1. to Vyet's.
14^1. line that Childe Vyet read.
14^3. line that he.
14^{5, 6}, 15^{1, 2}, _as_ 15.
What ails my one brother, he says,
He'll not let my love be?
But I'll send to my brother's bridal,
The woman shall be free.
15^3. Take four and twenty bucks and ewes.
16^4. was wi wean.
17^1. about the.
18^2. with gold.
18^3, 19^3. keep the lady.
18^4. the mould.
20^1. bells were.
21^1. upon their.
21^4. Says he, You are with bairn.
22^2. came as my wooer.
22^3. your one.
23^1. so did I.
26^1. start him.
28^1, 29^1. for the.
28^3, 29^3. All was for Lady.
30^1. O get to me.
31. For ae.
31^3. All for the honourable marriage that.
#B.#
1^3. Their laid.
2^2. womb.
_12, 13 make one stanza in the MS._
_15, 16 are written together in three long lines._
_18 did not belong where it stands, cf. #A# 31, #E# 43,
44, but as the text now runs, cannot well change place._
#C.#
_Herd's copies differ little except in spelling._
6^4. cannell (_cinnamon_). _I have thought it best to
risk ~cammer~, for ~camerik~, ~cambric~, though I have
not found the word in English: Danish ~kammer-dug~._
10^3. _second copy omits_ on.
11^2. due (?).
_13, 14 are written in one stanza._
19^5. _second copy_ hidies.
25^1. men, Wayets: uncle _in second copy_.
_26-28 precede 23-25._
#D.#
4^2. that paid: _cf._ #E# 6^2. _10 follows 6 in MS._
#E.#
31^2, 35^2. belted and a brand.
[93] This stanza, which comes in here with flagrant impropriety, is
a commonplace, or movable passage. It occurs, as a feature in the
ceremony of a brilliant wedding, in 'Fair Mary of Wallington,' #E# 6,
7, and in some copies of 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annet:' see that ballad,
note to #A#.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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