Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

28. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane

P. 256. The first paragraph was occasioned by a misprint in Motherwell (corrected at p. cv of his Introduction), and may be dropped. In Pitcairn's Manuscript it is noted that this fragment was obtained from Mrs. Gammell.

To be Corrected in the Print.

256^a,1⁴. Read Machey for May-hay.

The following are mostly trivial variations from the spelling of the text.

256 b, 3². Read O. 4². Read rocked.

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