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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

259. Lord Thomas Stuart

P. 425. Found in a Manuscript of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and in "North Country Ballads," Miscellanea Curiosa, Abbotsford Library, which is another copy of the same pieces.

Sharpe, p. 5.  11. Thomas Steuart he.
12. mukle mean (an erasure before mean).
13,the coat.
31. women's wits is.
41. steeds was.
53. so sick.
61. no leech.
71. leeches is come and leeches is gone.
72. I am.
93. lands and.
103. got all my lands.
111. in their.
112. could not.
113. leesh.
133. And as.
143. I fear it may be mony unco lord.
144. from the.
153. I fear it is mony unco lord.
With variations of spelling not noted.
Scott  (as above, except) 12. mickle land: land was perhaps the word which is blotted out in Sharpe.
31. women's.

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