THE WHUMMIL BORE

+The Text+ is from Motherwell's MS. He included it in the Appendix to

his _Minstrelsy_. No other collector or editor notices the ballad--'if

it ever were one,' as Child remarks.

The only point to be noted is that the second stanza has crept into two

versions of _Hind Horn_, apparently because of the resemblance of the

previous stanzas, which present a mere ballad-commonplace.

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