"An aged female in Bermondsey, Surrey, from whose oral recitation the editor took down the present version, informed him, that she had often heard her grandmother sing it, and that it was never in print; but he has of late met with several common stall copies." — Dixon. This ballad is a traditional variation of No, 128. A copy which varies but slightly from that here printed is found in Captain Delany's Garland [1775?], British Museum, 134(5, m. 7 (9). It is given in Child, v, 240.
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