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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

169. Johnie Armstrong

[P. 367. Johnie's plain speech to the king. So in Li Charrois de Nymes, v. 283, in Jonkbloet, Guillaume d'Orange, I, 80: "Et dit Guillaumes, 'Dans rois, vos i mentez.'"]

367, and note. The Baron of Brackley's son (No 203), set on the nurse's knee, uses nearly the same words as Johnie Armstrong's in B, 24. M. Gaidoz, Mélusine, VII, 70, cites from Hone the passage in No 54 (B, 5, 6 see also A, 5, 6, D, 4, 5), in which Jesus speaks from his mother's womb. See further Mélusine, IV, 447, V, 36, 257, VI, 92.

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