Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

207. Lord Delamere

A.  41. Dutch for French, according to some reciters.
82. Oh.
B.  41, 91. Oh.
C.  11. Oh.
D.  Printed by Lyle in stanzas of eight short lines.
The copy in Motherwell's Manuscript is not in Motherwell's handwriting. It may have been written down from recollection of Lyle, or may have been arbitrarily altered.
The variations are as follows:
12. Delamare, and always.
21. pray let.
22. now for we've.
24, with flax seed.
31. the poor men's.
42. or for our.
51. it wanting.
62. in his.
63. the stroke.
64. broke.
71. The sprang.
82. he laid.
83. to the.
94. must won: my liege wanting.
101. bliss.
103. the king.

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