Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

The Death of Queen Jane

B.  31, 53. do is to be pronounced dee.
C. b.  Only six lines: 23,4, 41,2, 51,2.
23. This thing.
24. Straight open my two sides: save your.
41. The babie was.
42. But royal Queen Jeany lay low.
51. Then black were their mournings.
E.  The first seven stanzas taken down October 15, 1886, and the last sent on February 3, 1887.
24th March, 1887. "I can never remember them, sitting thinking about them. Yesterday I was humming away, not knowing what I was singing, until I sung this:
8 He opened her left side, Queen Jeanie's life 's oer, And the last rose of England will flourish no more."

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