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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

101. Willie o Douglas Dale

Pp. 407, 409, A 142, B 122, 'An lions gaed to their dens,' 'And the lions took the hill.' "Lions we have had verie manie in the north parts of Scotland, and those with maines of no less force than they of Mauritania are sometimes reported to be; but how and when they were destroied as yet I doo not read:" Holinshed, I, 379.

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