Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

9. The Fair Flower of Northumberland

A. a.   2. Halliwell's Deloney, in the first line of the burden, has leape over, but not elsewhere.
92. in the.
252. Where,
b.   32. walks.
34. she is.
51. aloud.
133. omits sad.
153. the knight.
162. forth did.
243. The fairest.
271. thou shalt.
322. knight.
352. never were.
B. b.   22. this prison.
43. omits that was.
63. ye brazen-fac'd.
113. He hired.
123. fell at his feet.
131. omits so.
141. mother on her sae gentlie smild, etc.
C. a.   82. Her bade.
83. return him.
b.   51. into.
132. at fifteen.
D.   2. Thus in Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xv:
      When they came to Scotland brig,
      O my dear, my love that she wan!
      'Light off, ye hure, from my black steed,
      And hie ye awa to Northumberland.'
E.   "The Flower of Northumberland. Written down from memory by Robert Hutton, Shepperd, Peel, Liddesdale, and sent by James Telf or to his friend Robert White, Newcastle on Tyne. 20 copies printed." Mr White's note.

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