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

Note 163 — 96 THE GAY GOSHAWK

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The "red, red lead" of D 7, 8 I had at first supposed to show a carelessness about epithets, like the "roses blue" of a Danish ballad. But considering that the red lead is to be rubbed on, one may ask whether some occult property of minium may have been known to the mother.

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