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Thread #87026 Message #3242145
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
20-Oct-11 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: Barbara Allen earliest version?
Subject: RE: Barbara Allen earliest version?

I think he could be characterised as spineless in Child 84A (Tea-Table Miscellany, 1740, from ed of 1763). If I read this version correctly: