Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

208. Bothwell Bridge

A.  24. Ere.
73. the 3rd.
Motherwell has made a few changes in his printed copy.
12. This stanza is given in Notes and Queries, First Series, I, 318, by a scholar of Christ's Hospital, who informs us that the ballad was there current about 1785-1800:
There 's fifty pounds in my right pocket,
      To be given to the poor;
There 's fifty pounds in my left pocket,
      To be given from door to door.
E.  12. And sealed it with gold in Mr. J.P. Morris's communication to Notes and Queries, the same volume, p. 333.
F.  21. by and by: cf. E 2.
22. No one, no not a slave: cf. E 2.
I.  18. The remainder of four stanzas appended by G.H. is omitted.

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