P. 346, III, 516 a. Add ‘Leggenda Napitina’ (still sung by the sailors
of Pizzo); communicated to La Calabria, June 15, 1889, p. 74, by
Salvatore Mele; Canto Marinaresco di Nicotera, the same, September 15,
1890. A wife is rescued by her husband.
347 b. #Swedish.# ‘Den bortsålda,’ Lagus, Nyländska Folkvisor, I, 22, No
6, _a_, _b_, _c_.
349 b, 514 a, III, 516 b, and especially 517 a. A wounded soldier calls
to mother, sister, father, brother for a drink of water, and gets none;
calls to his love, and she brings it: Waldau, Böhmische Granaten, II,
57, No 81.
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I
“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 127, Abbotsford.
Sent to John Leyden, by whom and when does not appear.
1
‘Hold your tongue, Lord Judge,’ she says,
‘Yet hold it a little while;
Methinks I see my ain dear father
Coming wandering many a mile.
2
‘O have you brought me gold, father?
Or have you brought me fee?
Or are you come to save my life
From off this gallows-tree?’
3
‘I have not brought you gold, daughter,
Nor have I brought you fee,
But I am come to see you hangd,
As you this day shall be.’
[“The verses run thus untill she has seen her mother, her brother, and
her sister likewise arrive, and then