Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Dives and Lazarus

A. a.  14-16. There are only these trifling variations in the stanzas cited by Sandys:
162. of an.
163. I'd made my peace.
b.  13. his guests.
73. I'll give to thee.
83. But they.
84. And flung.
93. But they.
94. So licked.
103. came an angel.
104. there for.
112. come along.
113. For there's a place in heaven provided.
123. There came a serpent.

12 4 . there for.
132-4. And come along with me,
For there's a place in hell
provided To sit on a serpent's knee.
141. lifting his eyes to heaven.
142. And seeing.
154,5. Then there would be an ending day,
But in hell I must ever last.
163,4. I would make my will and then secure
That the.
B.  13, 14 differ but slightly in Hone:
131. As it.
132. Rich Dives.
134. therein.
141. Dives.
143. For you've a place provided.
144. To sit.

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