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Child Ballads - End-Notes

The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie

A.  14. Qy, gade?
31. Written and af pint gold, with pint struck out (anticipation of the next line).
54. now come.
B.  Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. xci, supplies, from a recited version, after 15:
  Aye she sat, and aye she grat,
And kaimd her yellow hair,
And aye she cursd the hostler's wife,
That wysit her in at the door.
And after 16:
  Aye she sat, and aye she sang,
And kaimd her yellow hair,
And aye she blessd the hostler's wife,
That wysit her in at the door.
Compare D 13, 15.

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