Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

112. The Baffled Knight

P. 480 b. Spanish C, 'El Caballero burlado,' is now printed in full in Pidal, Asturian Romances, No 34, p. 156.

481 b. Add: 'La Marchande d'Oranges' in Rolland, V, 10. (Say Rolland, I, 258.)

Tears. Add: Rolland, II, 29, e, g, h.

Varieties. There may be added: Mélusine I, 483 = Revue des Traditions pop., III, 634 f.; Romania, X, 379 f., No 18; Bladé, Poésies p. de la Gascogne, II, 208.

482 a. Italian. Nigra, No 71, p. 375, 'Occasione mancata,' A-P. See also 'La Monacella salvata,' No 72, p. 381, and 'Il Galante burlato,' No 75, p. 388.

482 b. The ballad, it seems, is by Madame Favart: see Rolland, II, 33, k. Add: I, ib., p. 34, and Poésies pop. de la France, Manuscript, III, 493.

483 b. Danish A is translated by Prior, III, 182, No 126.

To be Corrected in the Print.

481 b, third paragraph, sixth line. Read, 27.

The following are mostly trivial variations from the spelling of the text.

483, 1³. Read wel.
6⁴. Read beene.

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