Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

The Grey Cock,
or,
Saw You My Father

a.  41. Manuscript Then up.
54. Ed. 1776, sail I.
b.  11. Saw you my father? Saw you my mother.
12. Saw you.
13,4. He told his only dear that he soon would be here, But he to another is gone.
21,2 = 13,4
23. has met with ... which has caused.
24. here anon.
3. Wanting.
41. Then John he up arose.
42. And he twirld, he twirld at.
43. lassie took the hint and to the.
44. she let her true love in.
5. Wanting.
61. Fly up, fly up.
63. Your breast shall be of the beaming gold.
71. cock he.
72. crowd an hour too soon.
73. day, so she.
74. it prov'd but the.
Notes and Queries, I, xii, 227: 62. But crow not until it be day.
63. And your breast shall be made of the burnishd gold.

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