(Dick Greenspan) "am I the only one who isn't sure that unsuccessful forcible sex songs (Eppie Morrie, the Baffled Kight etc) are less an objection to rape than they are of insufficient force being used? Read the words. Preferably without today's mind-set."

Thanks for bring this up, Dick! It's a topic--definitely outside of today's mindset--that I explore at some length here, with a whole page ("Eppie Morrie and Rob Roy: reality and deep play") given over to the ballad in question.   

My site is also unfinished and long neglected (incorporating short audiofiles proved harder than expected). And unnecessarily complicated? That's the trouble with thinking about something for too long and getting too little feedback. You tend to lose the reader. So thank you, Dick, for reminding me that I still have work to do.