Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

201. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray

a.  In eight-line stanzas.
b.  13, house for bower.
21. wi birk and brume.
23. Till the: frae the neibrin.
24. An streekit.
31. They were na buried in.
32. Amang the rest o their kin.
33. they were buried by Dornoch-haugh.
34. On the bent before.
41. Sing for And.
43. Wha for They.
44. wi thrashes.
c.  11. O wanting.
2. wanting.
31. They wadna rest in Methvin kirk.
32. gentle kin.
33. But they wad lie in Lednoch braes.
34. beek against.
4. wanting.

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