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

Note 147 — 245 YOUNG ALLAN

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Five are named in C 3, 4, but that is too many to allow. Probably two versions may have been combined here. B has only the three mentioned in C 4; the three of A 3 are repeated in A 9; and there are three only in E 7–9. The Black Burgess of C 3 occurs in A 3, and ‘the smack calld (caud) Twine’ of C 3 looks like a corruption of ‘the small (sma’) Cordvine.’

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