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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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54 THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL

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55 THE CARNAL AND THE CRANE

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56 DIVES AND LAZARUS

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57 BROWN ROBYN'S CONFESSION

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58 SIR PATRICK SPENS

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59 SIR ALDINGAR

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60 KING ESTMERE

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63 CHILD WATERS

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66 LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET

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68 YOUNG HUNTING

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69 CLERK SAUNDERS

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70 WILLIE AND LADY MAISRY

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71 THE BENT SAE BROWN

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72 THE CLERK'S TWA SONS O OWSENFORD

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73 LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET

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74 FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM

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76 THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL

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77 SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST

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78 THE UNQUIET GRAVE

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79 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL

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80 OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE

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81 LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD

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82 THE BONNY BIRDY

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MARY HAMILTON—R

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Burns, in a letter to Mrs Dunlop, January 25, 1790; Currie, II, 290, 1800.

Little did my mother think,
That day she cradled me,
What land I was to travel in,
Or what death I should die!