Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

16. Sheath and Knife

P. 186. D is in or from T. Lyle's Ancient Ballads and Songs, 1827, p. 241. Scott, as Lyle says, has nearly the same burden in a stanza (of his own?) which he makes E. Deans sing, in The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

To be Corrected in the Print.

185 b, P 13². Read There's.

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