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Thread #18292 Message #1113030
Posted By: GUEST,visitor (Kirsty)
10-Feb-04 - 12:35 AM
Thread Name: question on Outlandish Knight
Subject: RE: question on Outlandish Knight
This is my first visit and I'm really enjoying reading the discussions. Please excuse me if these have already been suggested and I missed it:
1)"Ba-ba and a lily-ba"
Maybe it's (meaningless here, but) transferred over from something like Ewan MacColl's version of The Elfin Knight, "blaw, blaw, blaw winds blaw" ?
2)"Oh (ought oh ought)?? would give to me rest
And* that young knight lay here on my breast."
Possibly "aught" ("anything") ?