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28 And the second thing that this ladie stumbled on
Was of Sir Gyles his head;
Sayes, Euer alacke, and woe is me,
Heere lyes my true-loue deade!
Was of Sir Gyles his head;
Sayes, Euer alacke, and woe is me,
Heere lyes my true-loue deade!
29 Hee cutt the papps beside he[r] brest,
And bad her wish her will;
And he cutt the eares beside her heade,
And bade her wish on still.
And bad her wish her will;
And he cutt the eares beside her heade,
And bade her wish on still.
30 'Mickle is the mans blood I haue spent,
To doe thee and me some good;'
Sayes, Euer alacke, my fayre lady,
I thinke that I was woode!
To doe thee and me some good;'
Sayes, Euer alacke, my fayre lady,
I thinke that I was woode!
31 He calld then vp his litle foote-page,
And made him heyre of all his land,
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And made him heyre of all his land,
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32 And he shope the crosse in his right sholder,
Of the white flesh and the redd,
And he went him into the holy land,
Wheras Christ was quicke and dead.
Of the white flesh and the redd,
And he went him into the holy land,
Wheras Christ was quicke and dead.
61, 3, 232, 243. 24. 81. sist.
111, 121. bookes man: cf. 151.
142. never dye.
152. Cooke seems to be wrongly repeated.
193. 5. 203. first sleep. 212. 13.
253. 2. 254. So Hales and Furnivall.
261. ladie bright. Qy fayre? 262. burning light.
282 2d. 302. thee & and.
323. sent him.
323. And always for &.
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Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
- 'Little Musgrave and the Lady Barnard.' a. Wit Restord, 1658, in the reprint "Facetiæ," London, 1817, I, 293. b. Wit and Drollery, 1682, p. 81.
- Percy MS., p. 53; Hales and Furnivall, I, 119.
- a. 'Little Mousgrove and the Lady Barnet,' Pepys Ballads, I, 364. b. Pepys Ballads, III, 314. c. Roxburghe Ballads, III, 146. d. Roxburghe Ballads, III, 340. e. Bagford Ballads, I, 36.
- 'Lord Barnard,' Kinloch MSS, I, 287.
- 'Young Musgrave,' Campbell MSS, II, 43.
- 'Lord Barnaby,' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 170.
- 'Wee Messgrove,' Motherwell's MS., p. 643.
- 'Little Musgrave,' Motherwell's MS., p. 120.
- 'Little Sir Grove,' Motherwell's MS., p. 305.
- 'Lord Barnabas' Lady,' Motherwell's MS., p. 371.
- Dr Joseph Robertson's Journal of Excursions, No 5.
- 'Lord Barnett and Little Munsgrove,' Buchan's MSS, I, 27: Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, Percy Society, XVII, 21.
- 'Little Mushiegrove,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xx, XXI, one stanza.
- 'Little Massgrove,' communicated by Miss Reburn, as learned in County Meath, Ireland, two stanzas.
A copy of this ballad in Dryden's Miscellany, III, 312, 1716, agrees with the one in Wit and Drollery. That in Ritson's Select Collection of English Songs, II, 215, 1783, agrees with Dryden's save in two or three words. The broadside C a was printed for
