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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

Note 122 — 155 SIR HUGH, OR, THE JEW’S DAUGHTER

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Percy: “As for Mirryland Town, it is probably a corruption of Milan (called by the Dutch Meylandt) town; the Pa is evidently the river Po, although the Adige, not the Po, runs through Milan.” B, 1 is unintelligible. Do the lads run down the Pa?

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