#P.# 142 b, 496 a, III, 499 a. #B# was repeated by Salvadori in Giornale
di Filologia Romanza, II, 197; and #E# was first published by Mazzatinti
in IV, 69, of the same.
142 f. A variety of ‘Graf Friedrich’ in Hruschka u. Toischer, Deutsche
Volkslieder aus Böhmen, p. 101, No 25.
143 b. III, 499. Testament. ‘Hr. Adelbrand,’ Kristensen, Jyske
Folkeminder, #X#, 227, 232, No 54, #A#, 20 ff., #F#, 10 ff.==‘Herr
Radibrand och lilla Lena,’ ‘Skön Helena och riddaren Hildebrand,’ Lagus,
Nyländska Folkvisor, I, 89, No 25, _a_,_ b_.
‘Adelbrand’ is No 311 of Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, V, II, 297, ed.
Olrik, of which the versions that have been cited in this book are #B#,
#K e#, #G e#, #F#, #K b#, #I#. There is a testament in other copies of
the same. Also in No 320, not yet published.
145 ff. “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 22 a. In
the handwriting of William Laidlaw; “from Jean Scott.”
There was three ladies playd at the ba,
With a hey hey an a lilly gay
Bye cam three lords an woo’d them a’.
Whan the roses smelld sae sweetly
The first o them was clad in yellow:
‘O fair may, will ye be my marrow?’
Whan the roses smell, etc.
The niest o them was clad i ried:
‘O fair may, will ye be my bride?’
The thrid o them was clad i green:
He said, O fair may, will ye be my queen?