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Thread #5238 Message #937322
Posted By: GUEST
21-Apr-03 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Poor Babes in the Woods
Subject: RE: Origins: Poor Babes in the Wood
It's a fragment of a ballad of 1595. See ZN1966 in the broadside ballad index at www.erols.com/olsonw, "Norfolk gentleman', later called "The Children in the Wood".