10^{3, 4}. 'Let the wind blow high or low, To Lord Thomas's wedding I'll go.' 11. She dressed herself up in a suit of fine clothes, With merry maids all in green; And there was not a town that she rode through But they took her to be a queen. 12^2. very low at his ring. _After_ 12_: He took her by the lily-white hand, And led her along the hall; He handed her to the head of the table, Among the ladies all. _After_ 13: Then out spoke the bonny brown girl some words with spirit, saying: 'Where did you get the water so clear, That washed your face so white?' 'There is a well in my father's yard That is both clear and spring, And if you were to live till the day you die That doon you never shall see.' 14 _is wanting._ _After 19_: 'Bury my mother at my head, Fair Ellenor by my side, And bury the bonny brown girl at the end of the church, Where she will be far from me.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Out of Fair Ellen there grew a red rose, And out of Lord Thomas there grew a sweet-briar. They grew so tall, they sprung so broad, They grew to a steeple top; Twelve o'clock every night They grew to a true lover's knot. #i.# _Communicated by Mr W. W. Newell, as recited by an Irish maid-servant in Cambridge, Massachusetts._ 1, 4-7, 10 _are wanting_. _After 12_: He took her by the lily-white hand, And led her through the hall, Until he put her sitting at the head of the table, Amongst the gentleman all. 13, 14. 'Is this your bride, Lord Thomas?' they said, Or is _this_ your bride?' said they 'O 't is better I love her little finger Than all _her_ whole boday.' _The stanza which describes Lord Thomas's dress and the effect he produced occurs in #e#, #g#, #h#; that in which Lord Thomas leads Ellinor through the hall and conducts her to her place is found in #d#, #f#, #g#, #h#, #i#; the colloquy about the water which washes Ellinor so white in #e#, #g#, #h#; Lord Thomas's directions about the burial in #d#, #f#, #h#; the plants growing from the grave in #g#, #h#. None of these are in the English broadside._ _A fragment in Pitcairn's MSS, III, 35, is derived from the English broadside._ #F.#