P. 480 a. There is another variety of #D# in The Calleen Fuine, to which
are added The Shepherd’s Boy, etc. Limerick, Printed by W. Goggin,
corner of Bridge-Street. British Museum, 11621. e. 14 (16). Dated 1810?
in the catalogue.
This begins:
There was a shepherd’s boy,
He kept sheep upon a hill,
And he went out upon a morning
To see what he could kill.
It’s blow away the morning dew,
It’s blow, you winds, hi ho!
You stole away my morning blush,
And blow a little, blow.
481 a. ‘Lou Cabalier discret’ (‘Je vous passerai le bois’), Daymard,
Vieux Chants p. rec. en Quercy, p. 126.
481 b, III, 518 a. Dans le bois elle s’est mise à pleurer: Revue des
Traditions Populaires, IV, 514; ‘J’ai fini ma journée,’ Gothier, Recueil
de Crâmignons, p. 5, ‘Youp ta deritou la la,’ Terry et Chaumont, Recueil
d’Airs de Crâmignons, etc., p. 66, No 34; ‘Après ma journée faite,’
Meyrac, Traditions, etc., des Ardennes, pp. 277, 279.
Varieties: ‘Lou Pastour brégountsous (trop discret),’ Daymard, p. 124;
‘A la ronde, mesdames,’ Terry et Chaumont, p. 22, No 13; ‘La belle et
l’ermite,’ ‘La jeune couturière,’ La Tradition, IV, 346, 348, Chansons
populaires de la Picardie (half-popular).
482 a. A #Breton# song gives the essence of the story in seven couplets:
Quellien, Chansons et Danses des Bretons, p. 156.
#Danish.# ‘Den dyre Kaabe,’ Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 142, No
38.
482 b, third paragraph. The incident of the boots in Hazlitt,
Jest-Books, II, 241 (Tarlton’s Jests, 1611, but printed before 1600).