P. 218 b, III, 502 a. ‘Barnemordersken,’ Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder,
X, 356, No 90, #A#, #B#.
219 b, 504 a, II, 500 a, III, 502 b. Add: #Q#, #R#, Hruschka u.
Toischer, Deutsche Volkslieder aus Böhmen, p. 129, No 40 a, b.
220 ff. #a.# MS. of Thomas Wilkie, p. 4, in “Scotch Ballads, Materials
for Border Minstrelsy,” No 33. “Taken down from Mrs Hislope, Gattonside.
The air is plaintive and very wild.” 1813. #b.# “Scotch Ballads,
Materials,” etc., No 113; in the hand of T. Wilkie.
1
As I looked over my father’s castle-wa,
All alone and alone, O
I saw two pretty babes playing at the ba.
Down by yone greenwood side, O
2
‘O pretty babes, if ye were mine,’
All alone, etc.,
‘I would clead you o the silk so fine.’
Alone by the, etc.
3
‘O mother dear, when we were thine,
Ye houket a hole fornent the sun,’
And laid yer two babes in, O
4
‘O pretty babes, if ye were mine,
I would feed you wi the morning’s milk.’
Alone by, etc.
5
‘O mother dear, when we were thine,
Ye houket a hole fornent the sun.
And laid yer two babes in, O.
6
‘But we are in the heavens high,
And ye hae the pains of hell to dri.’
Alone by, etc.
7
‘O pretty babes, pray weel for me!’
‘Aye, mother, as ye did for we.’
Down by, etc.
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3^1. when that ye had done _is written above_ we were thine.
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