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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

Note 5 — 191 HUGHIE GRAME

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Nicolson and Burn, I, lxxxi, II, 279 f. As for Bishop Aldridge’s character, his being a trimmer does not make him a “limmer.” Ecclesiastics are not infrequently accused in ballads, but no man is to lose his reputation without better evidence than that.

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