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18. 2. 8. The miller's daughter was at the door,
       As sweet as any gillyflower.
       
       

       9. O father, O father, there swims a swain,
       And he looks like a gentleman.
       
       

       10. The miller he fetcht his line and hook,
       And he fisht the fair maiden out of the brook.
       
       

       11¹. O miller, I'll give you guineas ten.
       
       

       12. The miller he took her guineas ten,
       And then he popt her in again.
       
       

       13. … behind his back gate,
       13². the farmer's daughter Kate.
       
       

       Instead of 14:
       
       

        The sister she sailed over the sea,
        And died an old maid of a hundred and three.
       
       

        The lover became a beggar man,
        And he drank out of a rusty tin can.
       
       

       b 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 are cited in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, IV, 127.
       
       
    3. 1. A varmer he lived in the west countree,
        Hey-down, bow-down
       A varmer he lived in the west countree,
       And he had daughters one, two, and dree.
        And I'll be true to my love,
        If my love'll be true to me.
       
       

       2. 3. wanting.
       
       

       4¹. As thay wur walking by the river's brim.
       5¹. pray gee me thy hand.
       
       

       7¹. So down she sank and away she swam.
       
       

       8. The miller's daughter stood by the door,
       As fair as any gilly-flower.
       
       

       9. here swims a swan,
       Very much like a drownded gentlewoman.
       
       

       10. The miller he fot his pole and hook,
       And he fished the fair maid out of the brook.
       
       

       11¹. O miller, I'll gee thee guineas ten.
       
       

       12². pushed the fair maid in again.
       
       

       Between 12 and 13 c has,
       
       

        But the crowner he cun and the justice too,
        With a hue and a cry and a hullaballoo.
       
       

        They hanged the miller beside his own gate
        For drowning the varmer's daughter, Kate.
       
       

       Instead of 14:
       
       

        The sister she fled beyond the seas,
        And died an old maid among black savagees.
       
       

        So I've ended my tale of the west countree,
        And they calls it the Barkshire Tragedee.
       
       
19. 1². MS. Or less (?).
20. Sung to a peculiar and beautiful air." Allingham, p. xxxiii.

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11

The Cruel Brother

1. '[The] Cruel Brother, or the Bride's Testament.' a. Alex. Fraser Tytler's Brown MS. b. Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 66.
2. The Kinloch MSS, I, 21.
3. 'Ther waur three ladies,' Harris MS., p. 11 b.
4. a. Notes and Queries, 1st S., VI, 53. b. 2d S., v, 171.
5. Notes and Queries, 4th S., V, 105.
6. 'The Three Knights,' Gilbert's Ancient Christmas Carols, 2d ed., p. 68.
7. 'Fine Flowers of the Valley.' a. Herd's MSS, I, 41. b. Herd's Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 88.
8. Fragment appended to G.
9. The Kinloch MSS, I, 27.
10. As current in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.
11. Notes and Queries, 4th S., IV, 517.