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Thread #157044 Message #3705279
Posted By: Lighter
29-Apr-15 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Barbara Allen
Subject: RE: Origins: Barbara Allen
Minor point. The database Early English Books Online dates the Brooksby [sic] et al. broadside (Child's Ba) more specifically to "1688-1692."
To this text (with a couple of trivial differences) an otherwise unidentified ca1750 printing adds as final:
As she was lying down to die, A sad feud she fell in; She said, I pray take warning by Hardhearted Barbara Allen.