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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

76. The Lass of Roch Royal

P. 213. B was received by Herd, with several other ballads, "by post, from a lady in Ayrshire (?), name unknown:" Herd's Manuscripts, I, 143.

215 b, 2d paragraph, tokens. Add: Ζωγραφεῖος Ἀγών, p. 90, No 67, p. 91, No 69, p. 95, No 81.

The lady demands love-tokens of Clerk Saunders' ghost, No 69, G, 33, II, 166.

219. C occurs in C.K. Sharpe's small Manuscript volume "Songs," p. 40, and must have been communicated to Sharpe by Pitcairn. Collation:

   2. It's open, etc.: not written in full.
33, 43. Ruchley hill.
53. give me.
6. Do not you mind, etc.: not written in full.
7 wanting.
81. turned round.
101. It's awa.
103. have got the.
131. that he.
141. Let down, let down.
143. late wanting.
153. morrow.
154. of mine.
16, 17, wanting.

P. 215. 'Germaine': see Daymard, p. 170; Revue des Traditions populaires, III, 364; Beauquier, Chansons pop. recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 259.

Trivial Corrections of Spelling.

473 b, 421. Read cri'd.

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