Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

39. Tam Lin

P. 339. Teind to hell. See Isabel Gowdie's case, in the Scottish Journal, I, 256, and compare Pitcairn's Criminal Trials.

345. D a. This copy occurs in "the second collection" of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, p. 3, with a few variations, as follows. (See Sharpe's Ballad Book, ed. 1880, p. 145.)

   13. Charters wood, and always.
31. the seam.
33. is gone.
52. ye.
64. ask no.
104. we have.
111. to me.
122. aft.
123. the Lord of Forbes.
124. all his.
15 occurs after 24.
151. Tho Elfin.
154. the tenth one goes.
155. I am an, or, I a man.
165. if that.
166. miles Cross.
171. go unto the Miles cross.
204. next the.
231, 241. int.
251. She did her down.
272. so green.
273. Where.
274. ride next.
284. he is.
294. He.
322. and cry.
341. I thought.

[P. 339 b, II, 505 b, III, 505 b. Fairy salve. Kirk's Invisible Commonwealth, ed. Lang, pp. 13, 34; Denham Tracts, II, 138 f.]

340 a, II, 505 b, III, 505 b, IV, 455 b. Sleeping under trees: ympe tree. Bugge, Arkiv för nordisk Filologi, VII, 104, refers to Liebrecht, Gervasius von Tilbury, p. 117, and to W. Hertz, Spielmannsbuch, p. 322.

To be Corrected in the Print.

342, 391. Read what.

Trivial Corrections of Spelling.

456 a, 82. Read bleam.

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