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

Note 117 — 221 KATHARINE JAFFRAY

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This phrase, owing to the accidents of tradition, comes in without much pertinency in some places; as in A 11, K 22, where she gars the trumpet sound foul play (altered in J 17, 18, to ‘a weel won play’ and ‘a’ fair play’).

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