Note 60 — 4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
Reading edition
One version of 'The Two Sisters,' Q, has the same answer:
'I did not put you in with the design Just for to pull you out again.'
st. 9.
This might be called a formula in Polish ballads: something of the kind occurs three times in X, four times in B, five times in P; in other ballads also. In Q 25, Catherine clutches the river bank, and John pushes away her hands. Compare 'The Two Sisters,' F 9, further on in this volume.