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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

Note 93 — 66 LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET

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This stanza, which comes in here with flagrant impropriety, is a commonplace, or movable passage. It occurs, as a feature in the ceremony of a brilliant wedding, in 'Fair Mary of Wallington,' E 6, 7, and in some copies of 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annet:' see that ballad, note to A.

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