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By Sidgwick, Frank
1.1: 'silly,' simple.
1.4: 'lair,' lying-in.
2.4: 'gate,' way.
5.3: 'her mother' is, of course, her mother-in-law.
9.2: 'shun' = shoon, shoes.
13: This stanza is not in the original, but is supplied from the boy's
repetition, st. 19.
13.4: 'lake-wake' = lyke-wake: watching by a corpse.
22: This, in ballads, is a customary method of giving expression to
strong emotion.
29.1: 'scope,' a gag.
30.4: 'wite,' blame: _i.e._ her mother was the cause of all her
trouble.]
Artist: Sidgwick, Frank
Year: 1850