Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

A. b.  81. flower frae the bush.
83. a witter true.
92. I did love.
111. gray goshawk.
112. sae well.
113. When my love was here hers ell.
124. Afore your true love gang.
133. in good.
142-4. By running oer the howm;
Nae hare runs swifter oer the lea
Nor your love ran thro the broom.
E.  concludes with these stanzas, which do not belong to this ballad:
11   'Rise up, rise up, my bonnie grey cock,
And craw when it is day,
An your neck sall be o the beaten gowd,
And your wings o the silver lay.'
12   But the cock provd fauss, and untrue he was,
And he crew three hour ower seen,
The lassie thocht it day, and sent her love away,
An it was but a blink o the meen.
13   'If I had him but agen,' she says,
'O if I but had him agen,
The best grey cock that ever crew at morn
Should never bereave me o 's charms.'
F. a.  82. fingers.
111 131. Oh.
152. I am.
b.  21. I pray you now, what.
31. Said he.
34. omits That.
43. omits pure.
44. And the ... back again.
52. ten good.
53. he strait.
54. omits For.
61. his servants.
62. omits made.
64. his joy.
74. sleep had fast.
82. finger.
93. in the midst.
94. what her lover.
101. Awaking he found.
102. of bearst.
103. omits do.
113. wake.
114. and lover.
121,2. I did.
123. wake.
124. here and she.
133. Why did you not wake.
141. I barked aloud when.
143. that there was my.
152. I have.
153. when she had been here.
154. had been surely mine.
161. omits should.
173. to see.
181. lay.
183. so I.
184. have returnd.
b has no imprint.

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