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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Edited by Francis James Child.
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
EDWARD—C
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MS. of Alexander Laing, 1829, p. 25.
‘
O what
did the fray begin about?
My son, come tell to me:’
‘It began about the breaking o the bonny hazel wand,
And a penny wad hae bought the tree.’
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads