P. 236 b, last paragraph. See the preface to 'The Suffolk Miracle' in this volume, p. 58 ff.
This "fragment," in a small Manuscript volume entirely in C.K. Sharpe's handwriting ("Songs"), p. 21, "from the recitation of Miss Oliphant of Gask, now Mrs. Nairn" (later Lady Nairne), evidently belongs here.
P. 235 a, last paragraph. Servian ballad in which a child's shirt is wet with its mother's tears, Rajković, p. 143, No 186, 'Dete Lovzar i majka mu' ('The child and his mother').
[235. Tears burning the dead. Professor Lanman furnishes the following interesting parallel from the Mahābhārata, xi, 43 ff.: Dhṛtarāṣṭra is lamenting for his fallen sons. His charioteer says; — The face that thou wearest, covered with falling tears, is not approved by the sacred books; nor do wise men praise it. For they [the tears], like sparks, 'tis said, do burn those men (for whom they're shed).]
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