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Child Ballads - End-Notes

Lady Diamond

B.  Written without division into stanzas or verses.
32. to bed.
84. didde lea.
C.  "Mary Johnston, our dairymaid at Hoddam Castle, used to sing this. It had a very pretty air, and some more verses which I have now forgot." Sharpe's Ballad-Book, 1880, p. 128.
D.  A little scotticized by Buchan in printing, and still more by Dixon.
925. tasse is tarse in my transcript; probably miscopied.

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