The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 299

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Part 10, Ballad Airs from Manuscript (1898)
by Francis James Child

Ballad 299. Trooper and Maid

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4526779The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Part 10, Ballad Airs from Manuscript — Ballad 299. Trooper and Maid1898Francis James Child

299 D (V, 306). Trooper and Maid.

Macmath MS.

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