| B. |
Initial quh is changed to wh: z, for
ȝ, to y. |
| C. |
"'The Jew's Daughter,' which you say was
transmitted to Mr. Dodsley by a friend of
yours, never reached me, and Mr. Dodsley
says he knows nothing of it. I wish you
would prevail on your friend to try to recollect or recover it,
and send me another copy
by you." Percy to Paton, Jan. 12, 1769.
The copy in the Percy papers is in Paton's hand.
14. First written: The fairest o them a'.
74. First written: The flower amang them
a'. |
| D. |
104. bells were, in the second
copy. |
| E. |
92. a swan. |
| F. |
Hume says, p. 5, that he first heard the ballad
in early boyhood; "it was afterwards
readily identified with Sir Hugh of Lincoln,
though the rustic minstrel from whom I received
it made no allusion to locality." One
cannot tell whether this copy is the ballad
heard in early boyhood.
141. "This and the next verse are transposed."
Hume. |
| G. a. |
24. darest. |
| b. |
12. doth fall.
13. When all.
14. Were out a playing ball.
21. We toss the balls so.
22. We toss the balls so.
23. We've tossed it
24. Where no one dares to.
31. out and came the Jew's daughter.
33. Said, Come.
41. will not come in, I cannot.
42. playfellows.
43. Nor for And.
44. Which will.
After 4:
| |
I must not come, I dare not come,
I cannot come at all,
For if my mother should call for me,
I cannot hear her call. |
54. To entice this.
After 5 (compare Miss Perine's own version, H
6):
| |
She put him in a little chair,
She pinned him with a pin,
And then she called for a wash-basin,
To spill his heart's blood in. |
63. dressing.
72. And the.
3 comes before 6.
83. they threw: deep dark well.
84. Was fifty fathoms.
9 wanting. |
| J. a. |
64. Whereer. |
| b. |
12. It rains both great.
22. And yet it.
33. thou young.
41. I dare not come, I dare not come.
43. Unless my
44. And I shall be flogged when I get.
53. She laid him on the.
61. The thickest of blood did first come out.
63. The third that came was his dear heart's blood.
64. Where all his.
7-13 wanting. |
| K. |
There are slight changes in the second copy.
42. all wanting.
51,3. The first as wanting. |
| L. a. |
"After nearly sixty years my memory is not
altogether trustworthy, and I am not altogether
sure how far I have mixed up my
childish recollections with later forms of the
ballad which I have read."
The singer tagged on to this fragment version
c of The Maid freed from the Gallows,
given at II, 352. |
| b. |
13. For all.
31. it wanting.
41. him in.
44. And wiled the young thing in.
5. wanting.
61. him in through one dark door.
62. she has.
63,4. wanting.
65. She's laid him.
After 1:
| |
She 's rolled him in a cake of lead,
Bade him lie still and sleep,
And thrown him in St. Mary's well,
'T was fifty fathoms deep. |
| |
When bells were rung, and mass was sung,
And all the boys came home,
Then every mother had her own son,
But Lady Maisy had none. |
|
| N. |
"The writer was not a little surprised to hear
from a group of colored children, in the
streets of New York city (though in a more
incoherent form), the following ballad. He
traced the song to a little girl living in one
of the cabins near Central Park, from whom
he obtained this version... The mother of
the family had herself been born in New
York, of Irish parentage, but had learned
from her own mother, and handed down to
her children, such legends of the past as the
ballad we cite." Communicated to me by
Mr. Newell some considerable time before
publication. |
| O. |
3. "One of the Jew's daughter's, 'a-dressed all
in green,' issues from the garden and says,
Come in, etc." |
