P. 179 b. F. After Kinloch Manuscripts, III, 127, insert: and Dr. John Hill Burton's papers.
182. Green and blue.
"Oh green's forsaken, And yellow's forsworn, And blue's the sweetest Color that's worn."
This is given (apropos of an emerald engagement-ring) as a popular rhyme in William Black's Three Feathers, chap. ix. The scene is in Cornwall.
"Then shall ye were a shelde of blewe, In token ye shall be trewe,"
says the king's daughter of Hungary in the Squyr of Lowe Degre, vv. 205, 206, Ritson, III, 158. See Rochholz, Altdeutsches Bürgerleben, pp. 277, 278. G.L.K.
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