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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

Note 181 — 20 THE CRUEL MOTHER.

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All the genuine ones. 'Lady Anne,' in Scott's Minstrelsy, III, 259, 1803, is on the face of it a modern composition, with extensive variations, on the theme of the popular ballad. It is here given in an Appendix, with a companion piece from Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song.

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